Environment, Science and Technology minister Mahama Ayariga has rejected criticisms from the incoming NPP administration that the existing NDC government is making politically expedient decisions that could tie the hands of the new government.
Mahama Ayariga has stressed that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government despite losing the 2016 general elections still has a mandate of the people to govern until the midnight of January 6, 2017.
It is therefore not wrong in law for the President to appoint a new heads for National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) or the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) with a left-over mandate of 18 days to hand-over, the Bawku Central MP said.
Both appointees have security of tenure, meaning the incoming NPP government will not be able to review the decisions.
The NPP transition team, which has received handing-over notes from the NDC transition team, has raised alarm about recruitments into the security services, the dishing out of contracts to favourites and the sale of public assets.
The NPP has urged the government to consult before going ahead to make crucial decisions in line with best practices. It has also warned, it could be compelled to review decisions taken by the NDC after it is sworn in on January 7,2017.
Speaking to some of these concerns, Mahama Ayariga who is also Bawku Central MP said the NPP's complains may sound politically expedient but nonetheless not supported in law.
"The constitution says the President shall appoint....so up to the day he becomes ex-president he can do that. If you have an issue with that...your concerns might be legitimate in terms of politics but in law your concerns are clearly illegitimate. For me that is the key issue" he said on Joy FM's Super Morning Show Tuesday.
Mahama Ayariga said the NPP government after it lost the 2008 general elections went ahead to make major decisions.
"Ex-president Kufuor major appointments a few days before he handed over. We lived with those appointments".
He pointed to a major economic decision President Kufuor took when he okayed a Single Spine Salary Scheme with just a day to leave office.
"Increasing the salaries of workers to levels that even the workers said it is okay", he laughed and told the NPP 'let's not behave as if we haven't seen major decisions after transitions.
President John Agyekum Kufuor announced 16-32 per cent increases in salaries for workers in the public and civil service. The increases formed part of the implementation of the single spine salary structure which has been deliberated for the past two years.
President Kufuor was criticised by his former Finance minister Yaw Osafo Marfo for taking that decision.
"There should have been a silent memorandum to the NDC detailing what has been discussed and agreed, for them to have a look at it and incorporate it in the budget.”
Incidentally, more than six years later, Yaw Osafo Marfo is head of the NPP transition team who is also leading the charge that the exiting NDC government should not make major decisions without consulting the new administration.
Source: Joy News
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Nana Addo should not pay the entitlements due mahama and his cohorts until he pays the increased allowances of the students! That would teach those cri-min-als, cor-rupt ndc people bitter lessons!
ayariga doesn't make sense. So he want to tell me his father married 10 wife's so he is also going to marry 10.if you have this class 1 thinking ministers what do you think Ghana will be. No wonder Ghanas debt is 113.NDC will forever remain in opposition.
Very very ***barred word***.....two wrongs don't make a right.we should always go by best practices....***barred word*** boy
HE DO NOT KWON WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT
I saw NDC going into opposition looong ago. This is simply because, the same things NPP did that took them to opposition, they were repeating every one of them one after the other. Its soo obvious that Pride comes before destruction. NDC's own is just self destruction. I thought they would be comparing their good against the good of the NPP but rather they focus on the out doing the NPP in their wrongs. Bravo , you have lost my vote and that of my family and friends for a verrrry loooog time to come. And it looks like they are even not listening to themselves. They live in denial and falsehood. Carry on,but just remember that you lost historically by almost 10% margin. Also remember, that you did not have much opportunity to rig this elections like you did in the 2012 so just be there and be tickling yourself that because some people did not vote thats why you didnt get anything meaningful. by the time you realise how Use.les.s your behaviour had been, you would probably be long gone.
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If Kuffour did so then you must do so too... No good men in Ghana...
Mr. Ayariga should know best that the current NPP administration would not have time for any blame game. With God they will deliver as promise and bring CHANGE to Ghana. Nothing like Mahama did this and Nana Addo will do that, b'cus 1,000,000m+ differentiate the two political party.
Is it about what Kufour also did or it's about the best thing for Ghana?
***barred word***!!!! That is why you will be consigned to the dustbin forever. If it was bad that time, then it is bad now. Why do you repeat it. We must grow up as a country and resist such individual and selfish interest. Its a shame how far we take equalization to. Then we are told John Mahama is a humble president.