Kojo Oppong Nkrumah
The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has acknowledged that its total comprehensive loss for the 2025 financial year stood at GH¢34.9 billion, validating the Minority Caucus’ figure after weeks of heated public debate over the true state of the Central Bank’s finances.
The admission comes after sustained pressure from the Minority in Parliament, led by former Information Minister and MP for Ofoase-Ayirebi, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who exposed the Majority Caucus of deliberately downplaying the scale of the Bank’s losses by focusing only on the GH¢15.63 billion operating loss while ignoring an additional GH¢19.32 billion recorded under Other Comprehensive Income (OCI).
In a detailed explanatory document issued after the controversy erupted, the BoG effectively confirmed the Minority’s central argument, stating clearly that the institution recorded an “Operating Loss of GH¢15.63 billion and Other Comprehensive Income loss of GH¢19.32 billion for 2025,” bringing the total comprehensive loss to about GH¢34.95 billion.
The acknowledgment marks a dramatic shift in the public narrative after members of the Majority initially dismissed the Minority’s interpretation of the Bank’s financial statements.
Earlier, government communicators and Majority MPs had insisted that the relevant figure was the GH¢15.6 billion operating loss, arguing that the OCI component merely reflected accounting adjustments arising from the appreciation of the cedi and therefore should not be treated as a direct operational loss.
But the Minority Caucus, during a press conference addressed by Kojo Oppong Nkrumah at Parliament on Monday, insisted that the full financial impact on the Bank could not be understood without adding both figures.
“The Government and its spin doctors are trying to convince the people of Ghana that the loss is GH¢15.6 billion. We regret to tell Ghanaians that this is not true. The true operating loss of the Bank is actually GH¢34.9 billion,” Oppong Nkrumah declared.
The Minority argued that the Bank had used accounting treatments and one-off gains from gold sales to soften the appearance of the financial deterioration.
According to them, the central bank recorded a GH¢9.57 billion gain from the sale of gold reserves, which they claimed was used to reduce the headline loss figure.
They further pointed to the Bank’s own audited statements, particularly the Statement of Comprehensive Income, which showed the GH¢15.63 billion operating loss alongside the GH¢19.32 billion OCI loss.
“That is the figure. That is the loss they did not want the country to see,” the Minority stated.
On the additional GH¢19.32 billion OCI loss, the Bank explained that the figure reflected exchange and revaluation losses on its foreign reserve assets following the sharp appreciation of the cedi in 2025.
According to the Bank, the cedi’s appreciation from GH¢14.70 to the dollar in 2024 to GH¢10.45 in 2025 reduced the cedi-equivalent value of its foreign currency assets, gold reserves and Special Drawing Rights (SDRs), thereby creating the OCI losses.
“The OCI loss is a translation effect, not a depletion of reserves,” the Bank stated.
The explanation, however, has done little to calm the political storm surrounding the financial statements.
The Minority maintains that the Bank and the government initially sought to create the impression that the losses were far smaller than they actually were.
The Opposition MPs argue that the latest clarification effectively vindicates their earlier warnings and exposes what they describe as an attempt by the Majority to manipulate public perception.
A Daily Guide Report