Recurrent expenditure – 2017 (GHS38,608, 635, 551); 2018 (GHS47,477, 850, 045); 2019 (GHS56,903, 457,990 – 14.3% of GDP); 2020 (GHS66,795,455,335 – 16.8% of GDP), totalling GHS209,785,401,921). According to him, “Key infrastructure sectors of the economy such as roads, works and housing; and energy are not seeing any improvements in Government resources allocation”. “By end-year 2020, the government would have deducted a total of GHS3.1 billion from GETfund, GHS2.3 billion from Road fund, GHS2.3 billion from NHIL, GHS9.2 billion from DACF, and GHS6.8 billion from GIIF. These deductions which will sum up to GHS23.6 billion by the end of 2020 will go into consumption of goods and services. The key sectors are suffering from malnutrition or Kwashiorkor”.

Source: GhanaWeb November 21, 2019 08:48 UTC