General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia has described as unreasonable justification from the Nana-Addo led administration that the previous government left behind a bad economy; hence the need for a ‘bigger’ team.
“The argument that the economy is so destroyed so they need a bigger team to do the work; it doesn’t make sense (excuse my language). Are they saying that when you have a weak economy which does not have the capacity to spend on a bigger overhead, is that the time you appoint more ministers that will require a lot more money to be paying them? When you are talking about competence; are they telling us that when you have an incompetent person doing one job, you need three competent people to be doing that same job? Is that what they want to imply?” he queried.
General Mosquito as he is popular called, told TV3, Wednesday that a government that is complaining of the economy, should not appoint a lot of people since those appointed would have to be paid and catered for.
“Their salaries and overheads will just make the cost of doing business more expensive…If they don’t know how to calculate value for money tell them that a ministry which is headed by one person; if it takes a decision, you can calculate the cost of that decision as supposed to a ministry which is headed by four ministers. Each of them have to be paid, housed, transported around on free fuel, land cruisers, saloon cars and all that…what is the point in not being able to recruit nurses and pay them and u rather choose to employ more ministers and pay them with the money. It comes to priority; wrong priority setting” he added.
Asiedu Nketia’s comment comes on the back of President Akufo Addo’s appointment of 50 deputy ministers and 4 new ministers.
President Akufo Addo presented a list of 54 ministers on Wednesday, making the total number of appointees in his administration 110.
This has generated a lot of controversies as some critics thinks the number of ministers will put a stress on the public purse. Others have also described it as 'job for the boys'.
However, Mustapha Hamid says the number will rather help the President in achieving most of his promises as well as lift the economy back on its feet.
“We never promised a lean government. Nowhere did we promise a lean government, because in our view it is not the leanness or bigness of a government that determines its output and its ultimate performance. We have had, in the history of this country, governments that are smaller that have landed this country in bigger debt and bigger mess than governments that have had bigger ministers. For example, the Kufuor government, apart from this Akufo-Addo government, would have been the government that had the biggest number of ministers and deputy ministers. But everybody knows President Kufuor’s record in this country. Everybody knows what we did for this nation at the end of President Kufour’s government. Those who came subsequently after that and created all the financial mess that we have on our hands which we are still dealing with had a smaller government. So I can purport to run a government with 10 ministers and still create an avenue to loot our nation if that is what the Ghanaian people want or to have a government that is bigger than that but which has people of integrity, honesty who are on the job and doing the things that ought to be done” the Minister of Information said.
But General Mosquito insists that “to come and say that we didn’t promise a lean government so we are at liberty to do whatever we want, I think that it is rather rubbing pepper in the wound. It is not correct at all”
He queried: “what work will the ministers be doing themselves? Ministers are there to take decisions for people to work; so they shouldn’t let it appear as if the ministers themselves are the ones going to do the work…That argument is falsehood. Then they should proceed to appoint one district one minister so that each minister will be responsible for one district so they can finish the work quickly”.
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What else do you expect from the oldmen. Nana Addo is old, he knows he cannot perform so he is hiring more people so that he can have time for himself. Unlike Mills who hired babies with sharp teeth, Nana Addo is hiring old men with weak waists. Such oldmen need yound leutenants to run errands for them, hence the large government size. Ghanaians should keep quiet and suffer because that is what they voted for. They voted for counterfeit. Infact the entire 2016 election is like what happened at Akwatia, bypassing the competent Baba Jamal and voting for a hairdresser who cannot express herself. These are the repercusions.
Maybe when the time comes and this guy who looks as if he lives on a diet of scorpions is made to tell the people of Ghana where he had the loot to build a 2 storey mansion and his son just out of university has built a mansion at Oyarifa and drives the latest Mercedes Benz saloon.This man used to wear JJ's son;s left over clothing.My point here is that I believe Nana knows what he is doing.After the out and out th13very and neglect of all sectors of the economy, Ghana is in distress.The railway system does not exist and has to be built from scratch.Every sector you can think of is in dire straits.So will this king of f001s sh*t the Fu+k up and let us have some peace?All they are doing is praying that this government fails so they can come back to continue from where they left off.God is alive though and evil WILL NEVER PREVAIL.
This man will not keep is mouth shut,he should prepare himself for jail general mosquito.
THE MOST GENERAL HAVE SPOKEN, THE INTECTUAL MAN HAVE SPOKEN, ALL BLOCKED HEADED PEOPLE WHO DONT KNOW WHAT LOGGICAL THINKING MEANS ARE WORRIED AND CONFUSUED, AND THROWING THEIR WEIGHT ABOUT INSULTING THE MAN THEY FEAR IN THEIR POLITICAL EXISTENCE. GENERAL AKASA OBIARA NYE DINNNNNNN.
it's good that you see how incompetency you and your party are just with eight years that your came into power you manage to destroy everything you touch, and somebody has come to solve the problem with competent ministers you shouting Some of you who will survive to be clean from corruption to come back to Parliament I will advise you to study good governance from Nana Addo this man who has a team and they understand what they are doing even non-economist can read into their lay down plan. A word to a wise is enough.
Take your bony frame somewhere make we think!
Educated illiterate and political comedian, AN must know that there exists one (1) district, one (1) minister already. they are the MMDCEs.
GENERAL OF FO000LLS, WE CAN INSULT PEOPLE MORE THAN YOU DO BUT WE ARE POLITE PEOPLE,YOU aseidu nketia appeairance tells all,
Aseidu Nketiah think he is morcking NPP party but he is mocking his party NDC, they think what he and Ablakwa etc are saying will let we the voters will regret NO BIG NO, we will not NEVER AGAIN IN NDC.
What is the Phuulish Asiedu Nketia saying. We will get him a minister for his kitchen to check the food he eats for which he is not growing big. Kwa**sia bi nti.... he can talk trash.