Local Government and Decentralization
“To strictly follow the Resetting Agenda and secure sufficient funding, the Ministry of Finance has allocated GHS 6.3 billion to the District Assemblies Common Fund (DACF).
This amount covers four quarters of the 2025 fiscal year and is allocated to all 261 Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) to execute their activities outlined in the Medium-Term Development Plans and Annual Action Plans (AAPs).
Out of the amount released, a total of GHS 4.3 billion has been disbursed to all MMDAs. The 4th Quarter instalment is being processed for disbursement.”
Economy
“Mr Speaker, a nation that does not learn from past mistakes cannot get out of the cycle of problems that impose hardship on its citizens.
We have just begun to emerge from the most devastating economic crisis in our nation’s recent history. This crisis was trigered by general financial indiscipline, huge deficits and massive debt occasioned by persistent unbudgeted expenditure to meet the ends of covnenient politicking.
In the last few weeks, we have had to take the painful but necessary decision to revise the producer price of Cocoa to achieve competitive pricing and resolve accute liquidity challenges in the sector.
Failure to do so would have meant pumping in billions of borrowed funds.
We have fully repaid and reinstated the $500 million World Bank guarantee including interests.
Anti-corruption
“As of December 2025, EOCO had recovered more than GHS 600 million.
The Office has investigated 462 cases, with 15 currently under prosecution, and dismantled transnational car-jacking syndicates, recovering 29 luxury vehicles.
The Attorney General’s Office will continue to use both criminal prosecution and non-conviction-based asset recovery mechanisms to ensure that stolen public resources are returned for national development.
I understand that a large majority of Ghanaians are impatient to see those who abused their trust in office held to account.
I may be as impatient as everyone else to see justice done, but painstaking investigations must be conducted, dockets must be prepared, charges must be filed, and the accused must have their day in court, including appealing even the smallest points of law to higher courts.
This process is necessary to protect us all against abuse or ill-treatment of citizens and to ensure that only those guilty of offences against the state are punished.”
By BED
