The Minister of Energy and Petroleum, Mr. Boakye Agyarko, has disclosed that the immediate past National Democratic Congress (NDC) government bedeviled his ministry with a whopping $2.4 billion in debt.
According to him, this is a huge challenge, and in order to tackle it head on, he needed civil servants who are not politically biased to work with.
Mr. Boakye Agyarko has, therefore, suggested to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, of which is he is part, to retire civil servants who are found to have affinity towards the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Those who are below their retirement age, he suggested, should be widely dealt with to to the line of the state and government of the NPP.
"It is important for us, as a party, to work hard and expose and shame any NDC civil servant who will dare do any dubious thing to make the NPP government unpopular," he said, adding: "What do you think will happen to me and the state, if I should continue to have some NDC civil servants in certain critical positions?"
Promising that his Ministry would tackle the debt head on, Mr. Agyarko said he had plans of negotiating some of the contract agreements the NDC government entered into with the government's partners, In order to save the state from any form of judgement debt.
Principal agencies subset of the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum are the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC), Bulk Oil and Storage Transport (BOST) and Tema Oil Refinery (TOR), and going forward, Mr. Agyarko said he would hold constant checks and surveillance on all those agencies, to prevent some of the dubious contractual arrangements that went on there.
In view of this, Boakye Agyarko vowed not to make himself a prey to cronies who think they can use his sector to satisfy their financial greed and personal desires.
The NPP government, he said, would ensure that it has protected and preserved the sovereignty of the State, through prudency and contracts that would bring value for money.
Appearing on Oman FM's night political talk show-Boiling Point-on Tuesday this week, Mr. Agyarko said the NPP should safeguard the interest of its loyal party faithful, by getting them to occupy the positions, such as those of the civil servants whose party ideologies and beliefs are divergent from that of the NPP government.
"Most of our loyalists in the civil service were humiliated by the administrations of Mills and Mahama, and so for me, we have to urgently cater for such victims. We can't disregard the vigorous efforts of the grassroots who have given us the power," he noted.
Source: The Chronicle
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I think npp is toying Ghanaians
NPP - Asante peoples party you promise to solve this shittttttttt. So up your dirtyyyy mouth shut and solve it okay
Oya! CLEAR THEM ALL ,FILTHY BASTARDS,***barred word*** AND BIG GANGANTUAN LIARS ,CLEAR THEM ALL ,NATION WRECKERS , THEY WILL ALL BE CLEARED TILL THE NDC IS NO MORE .....***barred word*** U HAVENT SEEN NOTHING YET ***barred word*** ,U SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT U DID SO SOON WHEN U CAME TO POWER ,U TREATED SOME SECTION OF THE PEOPLE LIKE THEY WERE NOT PART OF GHANA AND FIRED ALL OF THEM IN SECRET ,SO WHAT IF HE SAYS IT ,YOU CAN GO TO HELL IF U DONT LIKE IT BUT THATS Y GHANAIANS VOTED FOR NPP TO CLEAR ALL THE LIEING ***barred word*** SO MORE GREESE TO YOUR ELBOWS AND GOD BLESS NPP
This is ***barred word*** at its highest level by the new minister. What you are suggesting is a non starter. You better sit up and start working and stop making unnecessary noise.
This is no revelation.Its an accumulated debt since time in history. This is the reason why the NDC went to parliament to instituted the debt recovery tax. so what is new here. This bribe stricken joke of a minister should think of solving the problem and stop complaining. He can decide to take the ministry to the npp head quarters and fill the ministry with their people only. We care less. Incompetence paa nie.
Nana has failed big time. You see, babies have their problems and old men also have their problems but I bet you this guy talks and behaves like an inexperienced SHS boy. Mahama had to deal with all kinds of civil/ public servants with assorted political inclinations. He experienced strikes morning, afternoon, evening but we never heard this kind of thrush from his lieutenants. Are these the competent guys? I miss Mahama
Efo Nyoagbe with his draconian policies at pharmacy council must also go ASAP. He's been there for as long as one can remember and he's destroyed the pharmacy industry in the process.
Mahama replaced all chief directors when he took power. Most of them, like the chief director at works and housing are his class mates at tamasco
Snuff in the bud the ills; clean the stable of all ill-dung now; and keep it clean and healthy!
Chronicle must be truthful about this. I listened to the 'Boiling Point'program and the minister did not say that. I urge the producers to bring out the tape for all to hear.