Government “truly” committed to ending IMF programme in 2018

16:00 - 23 April 2017

He, however, said Ghana will not do away with the IMF because they will be assisting the country “under its technical assistant programme.”

Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta has said Ghana is “truly” committed to ending its three-year aid package with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

He also said the government is committed to meeting its targets within the IMF framework.

“We confident that we will meet the targets that we have set this year, and remember the fund will be with us, as we work through the 2018 budget, and we are truly committed to ending the program in April 2018," he told Joy FM.

He added: “the fund will still be with us post program completion, under its technical assistant program for Ghana.”

He also refuted claims that Ghana is rushing out of the three-year extended credit facility.

“I think we are getting issues completing wrong, the issue we need to contend with as Ghanaians are whether the fund was there or not with a 70 percent debt-to-GDP ratio and with all the fiscal indiscipline, which we would have to do it ourselves and that is really the fundamental thing,” he said.