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Akufo-Addo with the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta
Former chief of staff under the John Kuffuor administration, Mr. Kwadwo Okyere Mpiani said that claims that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo hired his family and friends to work for him in government may be true, but he did not do his research on this subject to enable him to come to this conclusion.
The main opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), accused President Akufo-Addo of being the most nepotist Ghana has ever seen.
Speaking to the media on Tuesday, November 5, 2019) at party headquarters in Accra, NDC communications officer Sammy Gyamfi listed what he called classic examples of nepotism in the administration.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the press, among Akufo-Addo’s countless relatives in government is Nana Asante Bediatuo, his cousin from Kyebi, who is his executive secretary. Bediatuo is not alone! He is joined in government by his father, Kofi Darko Asante, who chairs the Board of Directors of GlMPA, his mother, Ms. Vida Asante, who heads the Presidential House, and his brother, Kwesi Kuntu Asante, who sits on the Board of Directors. Advice. Ghanaian hostels.
“In addition, Nana Asante Bediatuo’s sister, Lauretta Asante (surname, Otchere), is one of three SSNIT deputy directors general who have been appointed by this government.
“Other relatives of President Akufo-Addo who currently hold various positions in his government include Ken Ofori Atta, Minister of Finance, Samuel Atta Akyea, Minister of Works and Housing, and Kwesi Amoako Atta, Minister of Roads and Highways, which are all cousins of the president.
“Friends of the media, in an unprecedented gesture, President Akufo-Addo appointed his own daughter, Gyankroma Akufo-Addo, to be a member of the Creative Arts Council.”
When asked if this was true, Mr Mpiani told Citi TV: “There may be some truth to this, I won’t deny it, but I haven’t done my research. on this subject”.
Regarding the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) quest to break the 8, he said it is possible but will depend on how NPP members behave by 2024 and also how the president’s government works. Akufo-Addo.
He said: “It may depend on how we behave by 2024.”
“It also requires discipline, hard work, the way we deal with the unemployment situation. If people see that we are really trying to solve unemployment, they will come with us, ”he said.
It is recalled that Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia also said that breaking the 8 year cycle is a political pursuit that requires all NPP members to stick together, build a strong party and execute the mandate with competence.
“Fortunately,” he said, “we are led by a Commander-in-Chief, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and in fact he is the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, whose passion and determination to handing over power to a nuclear power plant president in 2025 is absolute.
“This is why we see the President working tirelessly to ensure our success as a government and a party,” De Bawumia said at a TESCON meeting in Cape Coast on Saturday August 7th.
He added: “We have implemented bold policy initiatives and corrected a number of things that needed to be corrected. In fact, we have fixed a lot of things in the country and we are fixing more. “
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