Private legal practitioner Oliver Barker-Vormawor has described as improper that the presidential website has been redirected to the official website of President John Dramani Mahama.
He believes that the action contradicts all administrative norms.
‘’In fact, this offends our national security strategy if not several laws.’’
In a post on Facebook, he posited that the website and all other social media handles form part of what is referred to as Critical National Information Infrastructure.
‘’You cannot, under any circumstance, decamp the party onto critical national information systems. No! No! No! I am inclined to think whoever is behind this is unaware of the security impropriety of this act. But still it couldn’t have been done without someone having access to the backend of the government domain and even a sign-off by someone who should have known better.
This is why there is an Office of the Legal Counsel to the President. Get legal advice before you do anything. Cross-check three times. When Raymond Atuguba was executive secretary, no minute decision was ever taken unless it was cross-checked at least three times to make sure it didn’t offend any law, policy, practice, or procedure.
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The official Government of Ghana Presidency domain: www.presidency.gov.gh has been redirected to point to President John Dramani Mahama‘s campaign website www.johnmahama.org.
This is pretty unfortunate, and flies against everything that is administratively proper. In fact this offends our national security strategy if not several laws.
That website as well as the Presidency’s official social media handles form part of what is referred to as Critical National Information Infrastructure.
You cannot under any circumstance decamp the party on to critical national information systems. No! No! No! I am inclined to think whoever is behind this, is unaware of the security impropriety of this act. But still it couldn’t have been done, without someone having access to the backend of the Government domain and even a sign off by someone who should have known better.
This is why there is an Office of the Legal Counsel to the President. Get legal advice before you do anything. Cross check three times. When Raymond Atuguba was Executive Secretary, no minute decision was ever taken unless it was cross checked at least three times to make sure it didn’t offend any law, policy, practice or procedure.
It’s a huge learning curve, the Presidency. But let administrative protocols be your guide.
I saw this yesterday, and gave it at least 24hours to comment. My hope was that this would be remedied immediately. But it hasn’t.
I think this incident has to be investigated. And proper apology offered.
Early days yet, but it’s important the new Gov cuts out such rookie mistakes.
A word to the wise.
Shalom
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
