Tomorrow’s Bubdget Will Be “Budget Hunu” – Ashanti Residents Slam NDC Government Ahead Of Presentation.

All are expecting that God willing, tomorrow the Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, will go to Parliament to present the Budget Statement and Economic Policy for the coming year.

But ahead of the presentation, Ghanaians in the Ashanti Region have revealed that tomorrow’s Budget is “Budget Hunu” meaning an empty budget which will hold nothing that will benefit ordinary Ghanaians.

According to them, prices of items keep increasing daily, and people cannot buy the items because there is no money in the system.

Even though tomatoes, plantain and other foodstuffs are all over the market, traders say they are not getting buyers.

“We bring our goods to the market, but we go back home with them. The customers come, they ask of the price, and they leave because they have no money,” one trader lamented.

The residents also bemoaned the rising unemployment in the country, saying many graduates are still at home with no jobs, while teacher and nursing trainees who completed school long ago are still waiting to be posted.

They argued that previous budgets have promised jobs, stability and relief, but their living conditions continue to worsen.

“Every year they read budget, but our lives don’t change. Prices go up, jobs don’t come, and the hardship increases. This one too will be the same Budget Hunu,” another resident said.

They therefore called on government to move beyond promises and present a budget that will truly reduce the cost of living, create jobs, post teacher and nursing trainees, and put money in the pockets of ordinary Ghanaians.

Story by Bismark Mensah@A/R.