The Communications Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akomea, has spoken to the criticisms that has generated since the appointment of President Akufo Addo's deputy ministers.
President Akufo-Addo has appointed 110 ministers in total, making his government the biggest in the Fourth Republic.
Many political pundits have criticized the President for his choice of a 'large' appointees. They are of the view that it will only burden the public purse considering that, aside the salaries and benefits, all these officials will retire with huge amounts as ex-gratia.
In a Facebook post on Thursday, Nana Akomea, noted:
There can be no doubt that president akufo addo's government is the largest in the fourth republic.
Numbers of ministers in all the previous administrations have never crossed 90. Even with that, there was always a clamour that the numbers were too large for a small poor country like ghana. Ghanaians, including political parties in opposition always called for trimming of ministerial numbers as part of general belt tightening in a poor country and a show of leadership by example at the highest levels of government.
So for ministerial numbers to cross beyond the nineties into the hundreds will surely alarm and disappoint ghanaians.
But there is also no doubt that president akufo addo's vision is the boldest and revolutionary of any president in the fourth republic.
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. President akufo addo believes he needs these numbers of appointees to deliver.
For now, these numbers are an issue, and the concerns being raised about them are legitimate, a 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.
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