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General news for Friday, January 22, 2021
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
2021-01-22
Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo
Professor Ransford Yaw Gyampo has questioned the essence of having a full Ministry of Employment when it cannot offer employment to graduates.
According to him, if the ministry exists to deal with labor-related issues, then the National Labor Commission should be empowered to do so because “employment issues are intersectoral and should continue to be so.”
Consequently, the Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Ghana was of the opinion that the Ministry of Employment should be eliminated.
His article follows the release of ministers nominated by President Nana Akufo-Addo for their second term, which has been submitted to Parliament for approval through the President, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin.
This list includes the names of 46 individuals who are expected to fill various ministerial positions and support the president in the fulfillment of his mandate over the next four years.
Eugene Arhin, Acting Director of Communications for Jubilee House, before the official launch of the ministerial list, issued a press release stating that the total number of ministers the president will appoint for his second term will not exceed 85.
Professor Gyampo believes that the number is too large for Ghana to have a government with 85 ministers of state.
He argues that Japan used to run the world’s third-largest economy with 17 ministers. The “UK has fewer than 30 ministers and the US has fewer than 40 ministers. Similarly, South Africa and Senegal have fewer than 40 ministers. Why are many of these countries that are richer and more populous than us? do you have a thin government? “
Professor Ransford Gyampo then suggested that some ministries should be eliminated in order for Ghana to have a more agile government and also better facilitate the president’s development agenda.
He stressed that “the information ministry must be eliminated. After all, apart from the vice president and Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, no NPP official better informed the public about anything in the president’s first term. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah may simply be a presidential spokesperson without a full ministry created for him. “
“The Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs must also be eliminated. It is undemocratic and undermines the principles of separation of powers and checks and balances. It is an unnecessary attempt to subordinate the parliamentary arm of the government to the executive ”.
He continued: “The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture must join the Ministry of Agriculture. The general ministry would be the Ministry of Agriculture and an office could be established to deal with matters of fishing, livestock and other related agricultural enterprises, ”wrote Professor Gyampo in his statement.
He added that under the Ministry of Transportation, the Ministry of Railway Development can be subsumed because the Railways provide a means of transportation to citizens.
“The Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources can be scrapped. District Assemblies should have the power to return to their traditional ‘saman-saman’ sanitation role, which they performed in a credible way in the past. The Water Resources part of the ministry can simply be added to the Ministry of Natural Resources ”, he emphasized.
Read Professor Gyampo’s full article below.
