Ghanaian journalist Nuong Faalong has hit back at attempts to link Ghana’s ineligibility for U.S. foreign assistance in the 2026 financial year to the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Reacting to the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) Fiscal Year 2026 Report, which confirmed Ghana’s exclusion following its debt default, Faalong accused the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) of misrepresenting the facts.
*“The attempt by the opposition to attribute Ghana’s MCC ineligibility for 2026 to the NDC is both misleading and dishonest,” she wrote.
According to her, the decision stemmed from policy actions taken by the current government.
“It must be corrected that in 2022, under the leadership of the Nana Addo/‘whizkid’ Bawumia administration, Ghana suspended external debt repayments, extended maturities to 2026, and introduced the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) as part of conditions for securing the IMF bailout.”
She argued that these measures are what triggered the MCC’s classification and ultimately affected Ghana’s eligibility for U.S. foreign aid.
“The discontinuation of aid is therefore not the fault of the NDC, but the deliberate result of NPP’s terrible policy choices,” Faalong stressed.
In a pointed remark, she added that the development ironically aligns with the NPP’s own policy direction.
“Ironically, this outcome falls directly in line with the NPP’s own ‘Ghana Beyond Aid’ vision.
“Yet I see their frontliners running to town with a narrative that is both false and forced: are they not proud of their record?”
