Former Information Minister, Nana Akomea although concedes that agitation over the number of the president’s ministers is legitimate, the clamoring would soon be overshadowed by the output of the ministers.
“There can be no doubt that president Akufo-Addo’s government is the largest in the Fourth Republic,” he acknowledged in a Facebook post.
Nonetheless, Nana Akomea pointed out, “For now, these numbers are an issue, and the concerns being raised about them are legitimate, expected, and in order, just as the NPP in opposition raised them.
If he indeed begins to deliver concretely on his transformational agenda, then the numbers will cease to be an issue.”
The president named a long list of 50 deputy ministers and four ministers of state on Wednesday that brought his ministerial appointees to unprecedented 110.
Government’s spokespersons have made strenuous attempts to justify the large number following public resentment. Mustapha Hamid, the substantive Information Minister who has been assigned three deputies suggested that the number does not matter in the scheme of things.
“Nowhere did we ever promise a lean government because in our view it is not the leanness or bigness of a government that determines its output or its ultimate performance,” he told journalists yesterday.
But Nana Akomea who is the New Patriotic Party’s Director of Communications admitted, “Numbers of ministers in all the previous administrations have never crossed 90.
Even with that, there was always a clamor that the numbers were too large for a small poor country like Ghana.” Noting that the number “will surely alarm and disappoint Ghanaians”, he however said President Akufo-Addo needed the 110 ministers to confront challenges bedeviling Ghana’s progress.
“There is also no doubt that president Akufo-Addo’s vision is the boldest and revolutionary of any president in the Fourth Republic,” he said as he mentions a tall list of promises made by the NPP-led government.
“The vision of one factory per district, comprehensive free SHS, comprehensive irrigation in the north, one million extra dollars per constituency, special prosecutor, etc., offers the country the real chance to industrialize, provide jobs to the teeming youth on a sustainable basis, move agriculture from peasant levels to real agric business, stabilise the cedi on a sustainable basis, aggressively meet the basic developmental needs of our deprived communities, tame inflation, tame corruption, and generally move this country onto the cherished new paradigm of progress and development.”
FLASHBACK
Nana Akomea in 2013 on Accra-based Asempa FM criticized the close to 90 ministers appointed by the Mahama government. He had argued that the number will drain the public purse. “How can he (Mahama) name six Ministers at the presidency alone? He (the President) should realign his ministers.
How do you tell teachers and doctors to tighten their belt if you have named close to 90 ministers. Ghanaians never benefitted from the previous ministers under Mills administration.
We are facing erratic power supply, rationing of water and no gas for the past years. What we need is institutional reform not appointing of ministers,” he said.
Source: 3news
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This is the kind of matured communication that sets our hearts at ease, not Mustafa Hameed. Nana should't be surprised if he -Hameed talks his government into difficulty. He just doesn't have what it takes. He never quenches fire with his interventions. He's the weakest link in Nana's government
Elections are won from day one of taking over. Because they want to chop, the have reduce taxes on spear parts so that we can not talk, they lie
Ahhhh these Man shouldn't have comment on these issue because I think he has done a lot for NPP party to win twenty sixteen election to power. Eii for this one dear momea Ghanafor
Mahama had 300 'presidential staffers'. Notorious of them was Stan Dogbe. How did Stan Dogbe contribute to the development of Ghana. The end justifies the means so let us wait and see what these ministers will do.
HYPOCRATE NANA AKOMEA. A TALKATIVE, A MAN WITH A HANDSOME FACE BUT DIABOLIC MIND AND THINKING.GOD IS WATCHING YOU. DAMMN HYPOCRATE, ***barred word*** YOUR MOUTH OF LIES.
The president said he is in a hurry to achieve results, fair enough, but if you're hungry do you have to eat with both hands? If you're in a hurry to get to Kumasi do you have to drive at 200mph???