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Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu described President Akufo-Addo’s candidates for ministerial appointments during his second term as being retrained.
“It only reminds us within the minority group that for President Nana Addo Dankwa, if he set up a 1D1F in recycling, he would be a very good entrepreneur in this business,” Mr. Iddrisu joked to the press on Thursday. .
“We’re just seeing a recycled list; no new impetus, no new thinking, no new innovation. It reminds us of Ghana still alive in 1997, ”he added.
The list of candidates submitted to parliament included 19 of the 30 central government ministers who retained their portfolios despite the president realigning seven ministries.
Mr Iddrisu said President Akufo-Addo should have been brave enough to reshuffle his government.
“Even on the occasion of a change of government, he does not seem ready to do exactly that”, however noted the Minister of Minorities.
But for Mr. Iddrisu, the most striking development has been the “ambiguous creation” of the new Ministry of Public Enterprises, which he described as “a recipe for confusion”.
He noted that the government could have simply relied on Law 990, which established the State Interests and Governance Authority, to oversee and administer state interests in state-owned enterprises, joint ventures and other public entities and to settle related matters.
“One would have thought that he would have used an interpretation of this law to create the ministry of public enterprises,” Iddrisu said.
He added that the minority is also concerned about the lack of regional balance in the listed candidates.
He questioned why the President had apparently strayed from constitutional mandates to ensure “reasonable regional and gender balance in recruitment and appointment to public office”.
“With its long list of 30 ministries, the Haut-Est region is visibly lost. It’s not acceptable. Oti is lost. It’s not acceptable. Bono is lost, ”Mr. Iddrisu said.
The Speaker of Parliament has since referred President Akufo-Addo’s list of ministerial appointments to the Nominations Committee.
— citinewsroom
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