Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways, Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini, has said the 2025 Budget delivers on promises, challenging the perception that politicians don’t keep their word.
According to him, many have cultivated a belief, based on the deeds of politicians, that they say what will win them votes and renegotiate their promises after gaining power.
However, he avers President John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have chart a course which has defeated that notion.
He explains the content of the 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, met the expectations of Ghanaians as promised by the party during the electioneering period.
Speaking on the BigIssue on TV3’s NewDay Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the Tamale North lawmaker expressed his excitement about the budget, noting that it has boosted the youth’s confidence in politicians.
“I was excited as a young Ghanaian that this budget sought to erase the notion that is fast gaining ground in relation to what many of our young people think of politicians; that we will say the sweet and palatable things without really meaning those things but because we think they will win us votes and that when we win power, we renegotiate these campaign promises.
“This budget sought to create the difference that there are some group of politicians like H.E. John Dramani Mahama and the NDC who will promise the things they are committed to doing and implementing,” he said.
He cited the government’s promise to establish a Women Development Bank (WDB), abolishing betting tax and e-levy amongst others which he said many expected them to come with excuses and renegotiate.
But the Member of Parliament has lauded the government for making provisions to present what many have described as the nuisance taxes to Parliament to be abolished, adding that the government’s apprenticeship programme would also be implemented alongside the establishment of the WDB.
Scores of Ghanaians are expecting the NDC administration to live to its reset mantra following what many have described as the shambolic performance of the erstwhile New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration leading to its humiliating defeat in the December 2024 elections.
The budget, as delivered by the Minister, proposes abolishing nuisance taxes introduced and retained by the last administration, subject to parliamentary approval.
The budget’s implementation is expected to bring relief to businesses and citizens through tax cuts, which many believe contributed to the economic downturn under the previous administration.
Meanwhile, Mr. Suhuyini believes failure on the government to deliver on its promises would have further eroded the little confidence the youth have in politicians.
“If we had not addressed those issues, we would have been depleting the confidence that people are fast losing in politicians and in our democracy. Because these were key issues in the campaign and then you want to come to government and show commitment in implementing those things.”
2025 Budget provided the hope required to turn Ghana’s economy around – Suhuyini
