Apostles of Reset Have Murdered Ghana’s Progress – Afenyo-Markin

Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has slammed the Mahama administration, accusing it of systematically dismantling the New Patriotic Party’s flagship initiatives and reversing key developmental gains.

Afenyo-Markin painted a bleak picture of the current government’s direction while speaking on the floor of Parliament during the concluding debate on the 2025 Mid-Year Budget Review on Thursday, July 31.

He accused the ruling party of turning its back on transformational projects designed to industrialize the economy, improve healthcare, and ensure food security.

“We initiated the transformational 1D1F to create jobs to boost local production in every corner of Ghana.

“The ‘Apostles of Reset’ have murdered this industrial revolution and condemned these initiatives to economic stagnation,” he stated, referring to the One District, One Factory policy spearheaded by the former NPP administration.

He continued: “We launched the Agenda 111 Hospitals to heal our people and create a foundation for medical tourism.

“The Apostles of Reset have killed this infrastructure expansion, leaving communities without hope for quality healthcare.”

Addressing agricultural policy, Afenyo-Markin further added: “We pioneered planting for food and jobs to feed our people, to ensure food security and create agricultural wealth.

“The so-called Apostles of Reset have slaughtered these agricultural transformations, leaving farmers abandoned and food security compromised.”

He ended with a scathing jab at the current government’s priorities: “All they know is the ‘GoldBod, GoldBod, GoldBod’ to promote galamsey.”

His comments came in direct response to Finance Minister Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson’s mid-year budget presentation on July 24.

Dr. Forson had touted the administration’s progress since taking office, claiming that within 200 days, the Mahama-led government had restored “clarity, certainty, stability and purpose” to Ghana’s economic policy.

“We have made significant progress and the signs of recovery are obvious, evident, noticeable and visible, tangible — and they are being felt,” the Minister said, defending the administration’s strategy as both deliberate and disciplined.

Analysis on Afenyo-Markin’s perpesective of the 2025 Mid-Year Budget Review

Clearly, the NPP and their Minority Leader remain in denial over their overwhelming defeat in the 2024 presidential and parliamentary elections—a loss largely attributed to their poor performance in government.

If the initiatives he claims the Mahama-led administration has cancelled were indeed scrapped, it’s likely because they were unrealistic and held no real value for the people of Ghana.

That, in itself, is one of the reasons the NPP was voted out—so what exactly is he talking about?

The Minority would do better to sit up and offer constructive scrutiny of the governing NDC rather than clinging to tired propaganda in a desperate bid to stay relevant.

Source: Liberalprint.com