Aspiring National Chairman of the People's Progressive Party (PPP), Nana Ofori Owusu has vehemently kicked against the number of staff working under the Office of the President.
Registering his resentments over what he believes is a ridiculous number to behold in government; Nana Ofori Owusu wondered what all those people are doing at the Presidency.
According to him, it is very disturbing that a nation like Ghana with a population of only 26 million would have 998 Presidential staff when the economy is challenged by several issues that need to be addressed.
To him, the government is piling up expenditures that will later blow back into the faces of Ghanaians and exert pressure on the economy.
Nana Ofori Owusu noted that it is prudent for the nation to establish the correct number to staff the Presidency.
“What is the correct staffing level for a country like Ghana? A nation of 26 million people, at the Presidency; what should be the correct staffing levels . . . In the United States of America, Presidential staffers are 377. In the Republic of Ghana, with the population of 26 million, we have Presidential staffing coming from 678, 700, 998”, he said.
In his earnest view "Ghana cannot go beyond aid when we continue to pile up expenditures on the government budget, on the national purse. It is not possible".
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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are you saying 700 of mahama's appointees are still in the flagstaff house working for Nana Addo? like seriously, are you that political blind...master open your eyes and stop defending this "job for the boys" ***barred word***, have you seen the list,publish the names of staffers employed by JDM
THIS GUY CAN BE A COMPLETE WASTE. HE CERTAINLY DOESN'T APPRECIATE THE GH BEYOND AID VISION, OTHERWISE HE WON'T SPEW THIS RUB*B*I*SH!
LET US TALK THROUGH MAHAMA DID NOT LEFT ANY STAFF FOR AKUFO ADO THIS NOT POSSIBLE NDC PERSON WITH NPP AT JUBILEE HOUSE.THE 998 STAFF ARE ALL NPP RECRUITED BY AKUFO ADO. THERE MORE STAFF NOT RELEASE.
HE COULD HAVE STILL MAINTAINED INSTEAD OF ADDING UP... THE TRUTH IS WE ARE ALWAYS FIGHTING FOR WHICHEVER PARTY WE SUPPORT INSTEAD OF FIGHTING FIRST FOR THE NATION.. WE KEEP EXPERIENCING A LOT OF CORRUPTION IN THIS GOVERNMENT BUT WHAT DO WE DO?? WE GO AHEAD AND TRY TO EQUALIZE BY POINTING OUT FLAWS IN PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION... GOD HELP US
I just don't understand why politicians just throw up dust in our eyes like that. Did Nana Addo just recruit or emppoyed these over 900 employees afresh? What NDC is not telling us is that Nana has just added to the over 700 already employed so to say the president has employed such a number of workers is just hypocritical. Let us stop all these half truths and outright lies. I thank God free SHS has come to stay. Very soon we will have a literate population and every issue will be well interrogated.