[ 2017-03-16 ]

Nana Akomea, Director of Communications of the NPP

Concerns over Akufo-Addo’s ‘elephant’ gov’t legitimate – Akomea
The Communications Director of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP), Nana Akomea says concerns being
raised about Akufo-Addo’s elephant-sized
government are legitimate and understandable.

President Akufo-Addo has come under severe
criticisms after new appointments announced on
Wednesday brought the number of ministers and
deputy minsters to 110.

The ministries of Information, Energy, Agriculture
and Local Government will each have three deputy
ministers, if the appointments are passed by
Parliament.

Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu criticised the size
of the government, saying it would “feed” off
the public purse.

But Information Minister Mustapha Hamid hit back
at critics saying “we never promised a lean
government”.

In a Facebook post Nana Akomea said even though
the size of the government is the largest in
Ghana’s history, it is necessary to assist the
president’s ambitious development agenda.

“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, 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.”

Source - Starrfmonline.com

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