Ministerial replacement press release - PPP

The Progressive People’s (PPP), recognizing the current economic difficulties of the country called on the president HE Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo Addo to reduce the number of government appointees in his administration by 50%.

We find the current action of the president, replacing ministers and filling vacant positions and not listening to the public as a mark of an intransigent president who cares less about what the people says.

Again, it is a signal suggesting the president, in the midst of challenges, continue to waste public resources on unproductive ventures and a call by the public fallen on deaf ears. Such actions by the president are affront to public descent showing, the president is missing out on good governance principles.

The PPP wish to emphasize that, the call by the public to the president
is a reduction in size of government and its expenditure and not a replacement of vacant positions.

At the time government is asking citizens to burden share underpinned by hash economic conditions resulting in introduction of new taxes, increasing cost of living and debt distress leading to government embarking on debt exchange programme for an IMF bailout, expectations of the public are that, the president show good faith and signal that, he is ready to burden share by reducing the size of his government.  

The president can’t ask the people to burden share when he obviously will not amend his expenditure downwards.  As a party, we have maintained, an effective and efficient government is not contained in a large size government.

Rather, it is about ensuring an effective public service to complement the effort of government to deliver public goods. We therefore call on the president once
more, to go back to the drawing table to cut down the size of his administration by merging some ministries, removing some appointees and reducing expenditure to reflect the current economic conditions of the state.

Maintaining a large size government at this time is counterproductive to our efforts and the president must show leadership to restore hope in the
country.
Long live Ghana
#AWAKE

Nana Ofori Owusu
National Chairman.