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General news for Sunday, January 17, 2021
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2021-01-17
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has eliminated eight of the new ministries that he created in his first term.
It is hackneyed knowledge that the president does not have the space to create a large number of ministries and appoint 123 ministers due to Ghana’s hung parliament status.
In the end, there were 59 ministers with various appointments; 16 regional ministers; and 48 vice ministers, bringing the net total to 123.
Ghana’s constitution requires that at least half of the ministers be deputies. For his second term, the president’s NPP party has 137 seats, the same number as the NDC.
On Saturday, a news report from Asaaseradio.com, a quasi-government spokesperson, spotted by GhanaWeb, indicated that for the president’s second term, some seven specialized ministries that were created when he took office on January 7, 2017, will not function. in his second term, giving two reasons.
This is because “they have fulfilled the purpose for which they were created, which was the job of establishing those priority projects and programs. In addition, the ministries are collapsing in response to public criticism about the record size of the government from the president’s first term, ”Asaase.com reported.
The pro-NPP news portal reports that the president will reduce the number of ministers by at least 30%. It will mainly affect the vice ministers of state.
Affected ministries
So far, eight ministries are planned for abolition and their functions have been returned to traditional ministries.
Are:
1) Ministry of Aviation;
2) Ministry of Development of the Interior City and Zongo;
3) Ministry of Business Development;
4) Ministry of Mobilization and Regional Reorganization;
5) Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation;
6) Ministry of Public Procurement;
7) Ministry of Planning; and
8) Ministry of Special Development Initiatives.
The investigation department of the Office of the President at Jubilee House is expected to be renewed to serve as the Ministry of Monitoring and Evaluation and will be headed by Dr. Isaac Owusu Mensah, according to the Asaase report.
