The information minister, Mustapha Hamid has defended government’s decisions to sack two civil servants upon assumption of office.
According to the Information Minister the Head of Local Government Service, Dr Callistus Mahama, and the Head of the State Enterprises Commission, Dr Kaminta Baizie, although civil servants, were sacked because they were clearly partisan in their works.
The presidential spokesperson further stated that the government did not sack the two persons because they were members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) but instead their actions were sabotaging the ruling government.
Speaking to Class FM Mr. Hamid revealed that the two men turned their various offices into NDC strategic centers.
“These people were appointed because of politics. It was President Kufuor who set up the Local Government Service. Hitherto, Local Government Service was part of the civil service structure. President Kufuor fleshed it out and set it up and appointed somebody. When the NDC came in 2009, they booted the fellow out so they were the ones who politicised it initially and brought in Dr Callistus Mahama purely on political grounds although the fellow’s tenure had not expired.
“The NDC had defacto politicised it. Dr Callitus Mahama himself didn’t help matters by being on NDC platforms, literally turning the place into NDC strategy centre and dishing out party paraphernalia. Sometimes your conduct also will determine even if it’s a political post, and you occupy it and you serve the Ghanaian project rather than a partisan project, if another party comes it will be very difficult for them to behave towards you in a partisan manner. So as for Kaminta and Calistus, I mean really they were clearly partisan.”
He further cautioned, civil servants, that if their attitude towards work is to serve a partisan interest instead of the interest of the nation, then such fellows would be sacked.
Source: ghanacrusader
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If they wont work for the nation, they should be sacked.
Why wait till now before sacking them. It's long overdue. Trump wasted no item in sacking all democrats at sensitive positions. That's how party politics and democracy works. Just sack them.
Massa ; SACK THEM ALL !!!!!!!;THIS IS POLITICS IF NDC MEMBERS ARE NOT PREPARED TO BE CIVIL SERVANT AND PLAY NEUTRAL BUT PROMOTE NDC AT THEIR OFFICES THEY SHOULD BE PREPARED TO BE SACKED _PRONTO !!!!NDC DID THE SAME WHEN THEY WERE IN POWER : IT IS SIMPLE 'YOU DO ME I DO YOU' : NDC SHOULD LEARN THAT POLITICS IS A SERIOUS BUSINESS ; IF THEY WIN POWER IN 2020 THEY ARE ALSO FREE TO SACK ANY NPP MEMBER WHO IS USING THEIR POSITION TO PROMOTE NPP IDEOLOGY - WHAT IS THEIR PROBLEM ; NPP WILL NOT ALLOW NDC KRIMINAL TO DERAIL NPP PROGRAMS !!!!!!!
Mr Hamid pls go to the Office of the Head of Local Government and see what the new Head of the Local Government Service has turned the office into. He is a former NPP MP for KEEA and has brought an NPP man as his advisor. He also brought a foot soldier as his personal assistant and worse of all he sacked officers of the OHLGS from their office just to give that office space to the foot soldiers he brought. The Chief Director has been set aside and a known and self declared NPP sympathizer (Director, HRD) is running the show and transferring people any how they want. Mr. Hamid, next time watch what you say. Check your facts. Local Government Service has now lost confidence in the eyes of foreign partners. It is a total mess now Sir.
what can of ***barred word*** is this country turning to...the partisan politics is too much.
If some one engages in politics sack them. The country's interest is paramount to a political one.
when two elephants, it is the grass that suffers,
we knows them(NPP) that is the way they behave. they should wait. Truly No condition is permanent.
can hamid tells us who replaced Dr calistus mahama? it is dr nana ato Arthur, the former NPP MP for KEEA
WHEN CHEWING THE MONKEYS FINGERS, LOOK AT YOURS. HAMID, NO CONDITION IS PERMANENT