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The Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu has urged Parliament to impose stricter borrowing limits on future governments to prevent a repeat of Ghana’s recent debt crisis.
In a video posted on X on October 5, 2025, by Muhammad Yaasii, Haruna Iddrisu criticised former president Nana Akufo-Addo’s administration for excessive borrowing that led to the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP).
He stressed that such setbacks should never happen again, calling for parliamentary oversight to enforce fiscal discipline in line with Article 181 of the Constitution.
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“At no point should any government borrow beyond 60–65% of GDP. Parliament can limit that,” he stated.
He said the programme caused several key infrastructure projects to stall, including the Kumasi Airport expansion, the Takoradi Interchange, and the 1,000-bed Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital project.
“Part of your stalled projects, even Kumasi Airport when it was 98%, the 2% got stalled because of debt exchange. The Takoradi Interchange got stalled because of debt exchange. The thousand-bed hospital facility at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital got stalled,” he indicated.
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Watch the video below
“At no point should any government borrow beyond 60-65% of GDP” - Hon Haruna Iddrisu comment on Nana Addo’s DDEP. pic.twitter.com/T4HQzGFusD
— Muhammad Yaasiin (@Hajjyass70) October 5, 2025
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