Dr. Richard Amoako Baah, a former lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, KNUST, has indicated that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's refusal to reshuffle his appointees means there are secrets that he may be hiding.
According to the academic, the government feels that if new people are appointed to occupy new positions, they will be exposed.
“Any government that finds it distasteful to reshuffle ministers has too many secrets and this is why they don’t want new eyes and new ears, because the same ones who are there play the game and let’s keep it going, that is part of the equation,” Dr. Richard Amoako Baah said on Joy FM's 'Top Story' programme on Monday.
His comments were in reaction to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's recent response to call for a reshuffle, where he said there is no justification for the demand since most of the ministers have met his expectations.
Speaking on North Star Radio in Tamale as part of his two-day tour of the Northern Region, the president said he is impressed with his appointees.
“Many of them for me have done outstanding work. Their output has been considerable, and that is what I look at,” he said.
But Amoako Baah advanced a contrary view to that of the president, "talk to Parliamentarians, they will tell you Common Fund never goes there. How are they going to be assessed? You were never given the money you needed to work so based on what are you going to decide competence to ensure that you fire them.
“If it is a political party that brought him to power [it] doesn’t mean that when you win, you will do whatever that you want.
“I have to say...I don’t want a position with him, it is already gone, so please what I am saying has nothing to do with myself. I don’t need a job with the President but if he calls me that he needs help and he thinks that I can help, that I will do,” Dr Amoako Baah noted.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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what will reshuffle do for Ghanaians? Rawlings reshuffled his ministers we went IMF and later we ended up as a HIPIC country, K4 reshuffled his ministers we were hit by world financial crunch and the country was term a distressed country and later went to IMF, Egya Atta reshuffled his ministers and even with oil find in commercial quantities we ended in the hands of the IMF, John Mahama the luckiest vice president without and later president without world pandemic, No war anywhere reshuffled his ministers and see what happened the country was plunged into darkness for four years, chew the meat and left bones without marrow, depreciation from Gh 1.00 to a dollar to Gh 4.80 to a dollar, inflation from 9.0 to 20.0, GDP growth from 14% to 3.7%, went on to seek IMF Credibility policy and what did we see freeze on employments, withdrawal of nurses and teachers allowances, unemployment graduate association, teachers worked for three years and were paid three month salaries, nurses who had completed school for four year were not posted and they had to go and picket at ministry of health every day, many companies collapsed because of Dumsor, even had it not been the resilience of the UTAG Members, their book and research allowances would have been withdrawn. NHIS was in capitation bases ie one has to register with a clinic or a hospital and that is the only health facility you can go access health care with your NHIS card. That means when one travels to any other town or region, he/she can not access health care with that NHIS Card.