Ranking Member on Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has challenged the government to account for the broader set of promises it made in its economic programmes, arguing that its record cannot be judged by a handful of achievements.

According to the Ofoase/Ayirebi MP, the government appears to have shifted its focus towards a few areas it can showcase while quietly moving away from several other commitments outlined at the beginning of its administration.

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“There are only about three games in town. Everything else that they listed, literally they have abandoned it,” he said.

Speaking on Citi Fm’s Eyewitness News on Monday, August 10 2026, Oppong Nkrumah said the government's performance should instead be measured against the specific targets it set for itself in its 2025 and 2026 economic programmes.

He argued that this approach would provide a clearer picture of whether the government is delivering on its promises rather than relying on general claims of progress.

One area he questioned was healthcare, where he said the government had made specific commitments that were yet to be fully realised.

“You were here when they said we were going to build 600 CHPS compounds in the first year, and now they said they were going to do about 35 Agenda 111s,” he said.

The former Information Minister also raised concerns about the government's sports infrastructure plans, particularly its pledge to construct new stadia.

“In sports, they said we’re going to build about seven stadia in, I think, the first or second year,” he said.

For Oppong Nkrumah, these commitments are not isolated cases but part of what he described as a wider pattern of promises that have fallen off the government's priority list.

“The major outcomes that they listed, they’ve literally abandoned all of them,” he said.

He linked the situation partly to the government's fiscal strategy, arguing that revenue mobilisation had not grown strongly enough to match the size and demands of the economy.

In his view, limited fiscal space has made it difficult for the government to pursue the wide range of programmes it initially promised, forcing it to concentrate on a smaller number of initiatives that can be presented as evidence of progress.

“We have a theory of why they have abandoned all of those and are just clinging onto about two or three things as evidence that their government is performing,” he said.

The NPP MP said the debate over the government's performance should therefore move beyond political rhetoric and focus on what was actually promised, how much money was allocated to deliver those promises and what has been achieved so far.

He maintained that budget allocations and measurable outcomes offered a more objective basis for determining whether the government was keeping faith with its commitments to Ghanaians.

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