“The total public debt has increased from GHS122 billion, which is 69% of GDP to GHS291.6 billion, which is 76.1% of GDP, as of the end of December 2020,” says the Caretaker Finance Minister, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu
The Majority leader who was standing in for Finance Minister-designate, Ken Ofori Atta, presenting the 2021 budget statement in Parliament blamed the increase in the debt stock on "non-recurrent burdens.
According to him, "
the debt stock and the debt to GDP ratio are the following non-recurrent burdens that we had to deal with as a matter of urgency; the physical impact of COVID-19, which is GHS19.7 billion, the cost of the financial sector clean-up, which is GHS21 billion, and the cost of excess capacity charges paid to IPPs, which is also GHS12 billion.”