Ghana's 2027 Budget allocates GHS 27.8 billion to capital spending under the Big Push, the government's road and transport infrastructure programme, equal to 1.5% of GDP.
The figure is in paragraph 824 and Appendix 3C of the 2027 Budget Statement, presented to Parliament on 12 November, where the line reads GHS 27,764,003,937. Whether that is a large increase or a small cut on 2026 depends on which of the Statement's own 2026 lines is used for comparison.
The narrow comparison: up 74%. Appendix 2C, the 2026 spending table, has a line called "Big Push Capex". It was budgeted at GHS 14.67 billion in the revised 2026 budget and is projected at GHS 15.92 billion for the full year.
Paragraph 617 uses this line when it says GHS 14.3 billion was "spent on the Big Push programme" from January to October (the table shows GHS 14.28 billion, against a programmed GHS 12.33 billion, 15.8% ahead). Against the GHS 15.92 billion projection, the 2027 allocation is 74.4% higher.
The wider comparison: down 5%. The same 2026 table carries a second line, "MDAs CAPEX ABFA (Big Push)", worth GHS 13.33 billion in the revised budget and GHS 13.16 billion spent by October. ABFA is the share of oil revenue that goes to the budget, and paragraph 685 says the 2026 ABFA was earmarked for the Accra–Kumasi Expressway "under Government's flagship 'Big Push' programme".
Add the two Big Push-labelled lines and the 2026 revised budget comes to exactly GHS 28.0 billion, with a projected outturn of GHS 29.25 billion. On that basis the 2027 allocation of GHS 27.76 billion is 0.8% below the 2026 budget and 5.1% below the projected 2026 outturn. The 2027 table has no separate ABFA Big Push line, so the Statement does not say which comparison it intends.
A third number in the speech. The Statement also gives the Big Push two different totals in words. Paragraph 1552 says "a separate GH¢28 billion" has been allocated, which matches the table after rounding; of this, GHS 2 billion goes to the Ghana Market Access and Connectivity Project and GHS 400 million to start the Volivo Bridge.
Paragraph 1629 says "we have allocated GH¢29.8 billion to the Big Push programme in 2027". That is GHS 2.04 billion, or 7.3%, more than the table. The Statement does not explain the difference, and no foreign-financed Big Push line appears in Appendix 3C to account for it.
The bigger money comes later. The indicative columns of Appendix 3C raise Big Push capex to GHS 46.29 billion in 2028, GHS 59.54 billion in 2029 and GHS 62.34 billion in 2030, all government-funded. Together with 2027, that is GHS 195.94 billion over four years.
Measured against the Statement's nominal GDP projections, Big Push spending would rise from 1.54% of GDP in 2027 to 2.55% in 2029 before easing to 2.35% in 2030. Those later years are projections, not appropriations; only the 2027 figure goes to a vote in Parliament this year.
For readers tracking delivery, the useful test is the January–October line. The government spent GHS 14.28 billion on the narrow Big Push line and GHS 13.16 billion on the ABFA Big Push line in the first ten months of 2026, a combined GHS 27.43 billion. Matching that pace in 2027 would use almost all of the GHS 27.76 billion allocated, before any of the larger sums promised for 2028 onwards.
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