Claims: Four claims about the service sector being the largest sector and fastest growing, IMF warning Ghana is in danger of debt distress, transformed BOST from worst performing state-owned enterprise to best performing and banking sector crisis has led to almost 20,000 job losses
Source: Former President John Mahama
Verdict: One true, one mixture and two not eligible
Claims: Two claims about ex-President Kufour being handed a HIPC economy in 2000 and Ghana ranking as one of the fastest growing economies in the
Claim: President of CSO-IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe will celebrate an NPP election defeat
Source: Unknown
Verdict: False
Claims: Five claims about when last the Damba festival was celebrated, Ghana’s growth rate in 2016, comparing Ghana’s deficit in 2016 to 2019, the country’s economic growth rate being one of the fastest in the World and Ghana being the largest recipient of FDI in West Africa.
Source: President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
Verdict: We rated one claim false, two true and two mixture.
Claims: Two claims about the 50% increase in Communication Service Tax (CST) and allocations from revenue generated from the CST in 2020
Source: MP Samuel Nartey George
Verdict: One true, one mixture
Claim: 2019 marks the 400th anniversary of the start of the transatlantic slave trade
Source: President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
Verdict: Mixture
