Claim: The 2025 budgetary allocation for basic education is the highest in a decade
Source: Kofi Asare, Executive Director of Africa Education Watch
Verdict: True
Researched by Gifty Danso
A flyer shared by GHOne TV, an Accra-based media organisation, has quoted the Executive Director of the Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, as saying: “allocation to basic education in the 2025 budget is the highest in a decade.”
GhanaFact observed that the flyer, initially shared on X on March 25, 2025, has been reshared by users across other social media platforms (here, here, and here).
On X, the GHOne TV flyer was reposted 96 times, received 837 likes, and had 11.2K views, while on Facebook, the post gained 287 likes, 12 shares, and 27 comments.
Fig 2: Screenshot of quote card shared by GHOne TV
This fact-check will verify the authenticity of the claim.
Fact-Check
GhanaFact relied on the budgetary allocations to the basic education sector as captured in the 2016 and 2017 budgets as well as the Appropriation Bill documents from 2018 through to 2025.
This time frame accounts for the 10-year duration indicated in the claim.
Find the breakdown below:
| Budget | Allocation |
| 2016 (Pg. 160) | GH¢3,390.46 million |
| 2017 (Pg. 133) | GH¢4,310.20 million |
| 2018 (Pg. 26) | GH¢3,158,421,772 |
| 2019 (Pg. 29) | GH¢4,395,816,522 |
| 2020 (Pg. 16) | GH¢4,202,763,857 |
| 2021 (Pg. 16) | GH¢4,722,300,397 |
| 2022 (Pg. 15) | GH¢3,867,722,279 |
| 2023 (Pg. 15) | GH¢4,575,122,073 |
| 2024 (Pg. 1) | GH¢5,777,714,328 |
| 2025 (Pg. 15) | GH¢7,785,166,611 |
From the above, the 2025 allocation is the highest in the last decade.
GhanaFact sought perspectives from the Africa Education Watch boss on the possible reasons for the hiked allocation to basic education. He explained: “The reason for the allocation going up, the first is the text books. It is 564 million cedis going to textbooks. So that’s a significant allocation, because in the past 10 years, I think the maximum that went to textbooks is about GH¢ 100 million.
“The second reason is the allocation for Capitation Grant. So those two obviously account for the huge basic education budget. What it means for the (education sector) is now we are now going to see the full component for textbooks. That will help fill the textbook gap,” he said.
Verdict
The claim that allocation to basic education in the 2025 budget is the highest in a decade is rated True.
