Deputy minister of communications, Hon. Felix Ofosu Kwakye has described disputations over President Mahama’s last round of activities as “naked politicking”.
The outgoing Minister, who spoke to pressmen yesterday in Accra, said the basis for such concerns lacked fair, sound and objective analysis.
He opined that the contretemps over government’s business were the actions of some people who have chosen to View the president’s activities with political lenses.
According to Mr. Ofosu Kwakye, the same attitudes were portrayed by opposition forces against the president’s appointment of Supreme Court Justices as well the EC boss sometime back.
“So – what you see is a partisan trend, not an objective, fair, candid analysis of the situation”, he said.
Adding, “It appears to me that there’re some people who simply do not respect the decisions and mandate of president Mahama, and that to me is at the heart of this kind of politicking”.
Presidents must function until end of tenure
The minister expressed that the president was being unnecessarily challenged over basic routine functions that other presidents before him in the past, performed.
“It cannot be said that some presidents before or after him (John Mahama) can exercise their mandates up until the end of their tenure, but president Mahama must be denied same. It is wrong and disrespectful of Ghana’s constitution and cannot be accepted in the normal course of running this nation”, he asserted.
The Minister also remarked that the claims being made were equally influenced by ignorance on the parts of some party fanatics who think that once their party wins an election, the functions of the outgoing government must immediately cease.
Mahama still president
He stressed that Mr. John Mahama remained president of the republic of Ghana and as such was allowed by the constitution to carry on with government business until January 7 when he shall hand over to Nana Akuffo-Addo.
Mr. Ofosu Kwakye maintained that the processes leading to the review of the national service allowance and wages of public sector workers, begun months before the elections and therefore could not be described as a “last-minute” gambit.
Appointments and increment won’t cripple new gov’t
“In any case, how does the appointment of an NCCE boss or the review of allowances and wages inhibit or stop a new government from functioning?” he averred.
He said the NDC government in like manner inherited certain appointments and contracts from former president John Kuffuor, and lived with it for 8 years, thus was not a strange thing.
The minister argued that if NPP claimed they would restore the allowances of trainee teachers and nurses running into hundreds of millions of cedis, they must not be consternated by the slight increment of the recent salaries and allowances.
Mr Kwakye who said the cost implication of the increment in the National Service allowances was Ghc14 million per year, according to him, was not grave to hamper the functioning of the incoming government.
Source: Clifford Yaw Frimpong/Ghanaweb
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So after serving as a catalyst to speed up the fall of John Mahama, this boy has still not learn,t any lessons,yooo,tuaso.
Hahhah! the baby with Sharp Teeth is out of the Rat Hole. He must find a job as soon as possible.
I agree, he played on the job too much. Young man shouldn't have done that.
No one disrespect the president he brought it to himself. I haven't seen a weak president like his type before. He never commanded any strictness in the discharge of his duties. All everybody show was continuous laughter. Even professor who was obviously sick was more firm and strong leader than mahama. I remember professor Mills going to alfao border to repudiate immigration and custom officers who were engaging in bribery scandals. Never did we see John mahama doing same to his appointees, and when you fail to address serious corruption and other important issues, the opposition would take your leniency to be weakness and that is what happened. Even when the IGP and the military heads wanted to take action he called them to say they should stop, so how wouldn't he be disrespected. He is the cause of Ndc being in opposition. Government in power was behaving as if in opposition and opposition was virtually in control. If you have a gun in your hand and fail to shoot at the enemy he may take it to kill you, and that's what happened. Bring him back for 2020 would be more disastrous for Ndc than 2016. He should go and relax in peace, we need some firm and strict leader, not usain bolt sign gesture.
Babies with sharp teeth they cause Mahama defeat with the way they talk
He just WOKE UP from the SHOCK of election defeat! NANIA$%MA!
Hey, ***barred word*** and leave. John Mahama is appointing the Chraj Chairman as a compensation for disallowing Martin Amidu to interrogate the scandals that had hit the party. How justifiable is this? Is Mahama really courting the respect of Ghanaians by uneccessarily apointing people during midnite?
Keep Talking. Your days are numbered. Do You remember I promised to slap you. Wait for that double slap from me. You shall surely see stars. Its not a threat, its a promise.
This !d!otict son of an !d!ot still has the guts to talk? Or he thinks we do not know of his purchasing a new V8 and a house for his former girl firend who threatened him to spill the bin if he does not settle her with those goodies? This happened in the full glare of the Madina Police who mediated the deal. He thinks by signing last minute contracts, he will get his ten percent before leaving office. Tweeeaaaaaa!!!! Get ready for Nsawam where NPP will rent a nice apartment for you.Son of an !d!ot.
fELIX YOU ARE RIGHT. I GREATLY SUPPORT YOU. WHY SHOULD THE PRESIDENT WAIT TILL NOW ?