The Minority in Parliament has sharply criticised the Mahama-led administration, accusing it of presiding over what they describe as clear fiscal indiscipline.
Their concerns follow the presentation of the 2026 Budget and Economic Policy, which they say exposes the government’s persistent failure to release funds for key sectors despite making annual allocations.
Addressing journalists on Friday, November 14, former Finance Minister and MP for Karaga, Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, speaking on behalf of the Minority Caucus, said the government’s approach to public expenditure continues to undermine productivity across ministries, departments, and agencies.
He said that although the budget consistently allocates money for capital expenditure and for goods and services, these funds rarely reach the institutions that require them to function effectively.
Dr Amin Adam argued that this pattern has left the public sector severely constrained, creating an environment where government agencies are unable to carry out their mandates—a situation he said contradicts the administration’s promise to improve public sector efficiency.
“Since this administration came into office, the budget that they have presented to parliament, allocations for capital expenditure and goods and services remain unreleased and workers across the public sector are paid but not given the necessary tools to work. This is what we call fiscal indiscipline. That you pay workers and yet you do not release goods and services to give them the tools to work it.
“That is fiscal indiscipline in reality. Some ministries do not even have basic things such as toilet rolls and are not even able to provide fuel for government work,” he stated.
