The Information Minister-designate, Fatimatu Abubakar, has opined that scraping the Information Ministry will cause incurable harm.
She has therefore opposed suggestions to either scrap or merge the Information Ministry with the Ministry of Communications.
She was responding to a question when she appeared before the vetting committee on Friday, March 8, 2025.
She highlighted tge importance of maintaining the ministry as a standalone ministry.
The nominee believes when the ministry is merged with the communication ministry it will not be effective.
She recounted the difficulties faced by various agencies under the ministry at that time.
“If anything, I am of the view that we should advocate for more allocation and let people know the importance of the ministry. When the ministry was merged at some point in time with the Communications Ministry, if you had been to the Ministry of Information building or the ISD buildings as we have today, the evidence of the struggles of the various agencies under the ministry was not something that we could even have words to explain.”
“It pays that we have a sector ministry that is minded, that despite the fact that the key entities under the ministry are not income-generating, they play a public duty and we need to pay attention to them, it has improved the fortunes under the ministry,” she added.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
