The Minority Caucus in Parliament has requested that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo merge some ministries and reduce the number of presidential staffers immediately.
Addressing the media, the leader of the Minority group Ato Forson said the President must look at the prevailing economic crisis and do the needful.
He opined that it is untenable for the president to appoint more ministers, burdening the already distressed public purse.
He said the President must merge the Ministry of Food and Agriculture with the Fisheries Ministry and the Chieftaincy Ministry merged with the Tourism Ministry.
The Minority is also calling for the Sanitation and the Local Government Ministry to be merged to help reduce the size of the government.
The Minority caucus also wants the Information and Communication ministries to be merged and the Transport and Railways ministries also merged.
“We in the Minority wish to make it clear that we remain committed to ensuring greater scrutiny and will spare no effort to protect the public purse. In line with this, we are taking part in the vetting process so that at the very minimum, we can scrutinize the President’s decision in bringing up those
nominees. However, the Minority will not subscribe to a consensus vote at the level of the Appointments Committee.”
Among other things, the Minority is also demanding the “immediate scrapping of all amorphous creations and waste-pipe, job-for-the-boys’ appointments since the assumption of office of President Akufo Addo in 2017. The work of those undefined, amorphous creations must revert to established entities in the civil and public service that perform similar, if not the same functions.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
