Credible information reaching The aL-hAJJ indicates that the Akufo-Addo-led government is in the process of sacking Chief Directors and other senior Directors of the various Ministries, Departments and Agencies suspected of being sympathizers of the opposition National Democratic Congress.
Sources privy to this latest move by government told this paper that, Chief Directors of MDAs and some Senior Directors were recently summoned to a meeting at the seat of government and were “told in plain language that we (the Akufo-Addo government) cannot work with you.”
According to the source, the Chief Directors, especially those who were appointed under the Mahama administration, have been asked to either resign from their present posts or be reassigned, and in the worst case scenario, shown the exit.
Though the instruction was given to all the Chief Directors and Senior Directors, the sourced explained that “there are some Chief Directors who are known NPP sympathizers that this directive will not affect…in order not to be seen as victimizing them because of their perceived political affiliation, all of them were called to the meeting but some of them who are NPP will retain their positions.”
Government’s decision to do away with the services of some of the Chief Directors comes a month after Minister of Energy, Mr Boakye Agyarko, revealed that the Akufo-Addo government will sack civil servants appointed by the Mahama administration.
This, he said, will be done to safeguard the interest of its {NPP}loyal party faithful, by getting them to occupy the positions, such as those of the civil servants “whose party”, {the NDC} ideologies and beliefs are divergent from that of the NPP government.
"Most of our loyalists in the civil service were humiliated by the administrations of Mills and Mahama, and, so, for me, we have to urgently cater for such victims. We can't disregard the vigorous efforts of the grassroots who have given us the power," he noted.
"It is important for us, as a party, to work hard and expose and shame any NDC civil servant who will dare do any dubious thing to make the NPP government unpopular…what do you think will happen to me and the state, if I should continue to have some NDC civil servants in certain critical positions?," Mr Agyarko retorted on Oman Fm’s Boiling Point program.
Loyalists and vigilante groups of the ruling party have since January been chasing out civil and public servants from their offices and in some instances taking over the management of these state institutions under the guise of protecting them.
Media reports indicate that the many civil servants working at the Flag Staff House have been re-assigned to other government agencies and replaced with NPP loyalists who helped the party grab power in the December 07 2016 elections.
Their removal from the seat of government was as a result of complaints by some presidential staffers that they are uncomfortable with the presence at the Flag Staff House because they were employed and worked with the erstwhile Mahama administration.
The civil servants at the seat of government reassigned included, gardeners, clerks, stewards, caterers and administrative staff.
To cap its planned stocking of the civil and public service with NPP loyalists, the Akufo-Addo government, The aL-hAJJ has gathered, has lined up its sympathizers at the various MDAs to replace the present Chief Directors suspected of being sympathizers of the NDC.
This, another source said, “has resulted in serious apprehension at the various MDAs. Those who have been promised promotions are no longer co-operating with their bosses because they know they will soon take over from them.”
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