The Minister of State in charge of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has refuted claims that President John Dramani Mahama has appointed 100 individuals to serve as presidential staffers.
The minister clarified that the president has appointed only 30 presidential staffers.
He was making claims made by Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Member of Parliament for Damongo.
The NPP MP accused President Mahama of appointing beyond the number he promised Ghanaians.
But addressing the issue at a press conference on Friday, March 7, 2025, Kwakye Ofosu noted that all appointed presidential staffers had been publicly announced.
“Everybody who has been appointed as a presidential staffer has been named in a statement signed by me. So, currently, there are 27 presidential staffers. All of them were publicly announced, unlike in the past when we only learned of them when the president submitted a list of presidential staff to parliament.
“This time, we went ahead to inform the people of Ghana and left nobody in doubt about the numbers.
“In addition to these 27, three people have been appointed to assist with some specific interventions that the president wants to undertake. They are referred to as directors. They do not have the ranking of presidential staffers, so they are described as presidential aides.
“If you add it to the list of staffers, there are just 30 people. Beyond that, no other staffers or presidential aides have been appointed,” he added.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
