The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has explained his government's size saying the numerous challenges facing Ghana currently demand such a large government.
President Nana Akufo-Addo as shot himself in the arm by appointing 110 ministers and deputies if he intends to run for a second term in 2020, National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Asuogyaman, Thomas Ampem Darko has stated.
A senior lecturer at the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo seems to have been outraged by the arguments put up by people defending the huge size of President Nana Akufo-Addo's government.
Fritz Baffour, a former member of parliament for the Ablekuma South Constituency, has defended President Nana Akufo-Addo over his appointment of 110 ministers.
The Kwesi Botchwey-led NDC committee probing the cause of the party’s defeat in the 2016 elections has been held hostage by some angry youth in the Kofirdua area.
Despite the public outcry over the size of President Nana Akufo-Addo's government, a Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Isaac Owusu Mensah has defended the President's decision saying the appointments are in order.
President Nana Akufo-Addo has nominated former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (GIPC), Robert Ahomka-Lindsay as one of two deputies to assist Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen.
Senior Minister, Yaw Osafo-Maafo has called for the Administrator General office to be made an Article 70 office holder to ensure the smooth operation of the office.
A senior research fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs [IEA] Dr Micheal Ofori Mensah has stated that Ghana’s democracy is characterised with institutional failures.
Former National Security Adviser to former President John Mahama, Alhaji Baba Kamara has been fingered as the number one beneficiary in the controversial pricing of the yet-to-be-completed 13.9 million US dollars official Vice Presidential House.