The Ministry of Financing has actually described as misleading and false, a report by the fact-checkghana. com of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) suggesting that the Federal government has shared various macroeconomic information with Ghanaians and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Factcheck-ghana. com has stated it crosschecked the data submitted to the IMF by Ghanaian authorities and what has been previously shared with Ghanaians and published by the Ministry of Finance.
“Based on the figures, we conclude that indeed, the data presented by the government to the IMF are different from those in budget statements.
“The fact-checking team found disparities between the data published in the statement of the IMF and data from the Budget Statements of 2019 and 2020 that the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Atta, presented to Parliament. ”
However, the Finance Ministry advised the general public to decline this claim.
A statement from the Ministry on Sunday, May 10 said: “Our attention has been drawn to a publication by fact-checkghana. com of the Media Foundation for West Africa suggesting that the Government has actually shared different macroeconomic information with Ghanaians and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
We want to state that this assertion is false and misleading.
“May we state that the Ministry of Finance welcomes discussions of the economic information we provide. Such discussions help us in managing the economy. We also operate an open-door policy.
“We urge the public to seek clarification on matters they may have difficulty with and we would be happy to help resolve any misunderstanding. Publishing such wrong claims about the economy is not helpful.”
