A Central University Lecturer, Dr. Benjamin Okyere Ankrah has called on President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo not to reappoint Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice, Madam Gloria Akuffo in his last term of office.
Dr. Benjamin Okyere Ankrah called for the immediate dismissal of the AG because, to him, she has underperformed.
He also made mention of the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, the Minister for Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea and a host of others who doesn't deserve to be on the list of the President's cabinet Ministers.
''The first person that the President must disappoint is the Attorney General. He should sack her. She didn't do anything . . . Ambrose Dery must also go. All the Deputy Regional Ministers should be dismissed. Technically, Regional Minister doesn't do any work. His or her work is to coordinate the activities of the various Assemblies . . . Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation must also go . . . Minister of Aviation, Kofi Ada, slept on his job . . .The President must disappoint him.''
According to him, there are a lot of Ministers and Deputy Ministers who must not form part of the President's second term, stressing the President should reduce his Ministerial appointments to about 80 Ministers.
''President, at all cost, must reduce the number of his Ministers. Some of the Ministers don't do anything. He should merge some of the Ministries - Information, Communication, Fisheries, Agric - he should merge a lot of them. If he can get Ministers up to even 80 or at most 90, it's okay," he said.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Indeed, I do not know what the Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice, Madam Gloria Akuffo should have competently done but failed to do as per her job discription and mandate. The good lecturer should have given examples to buttres his critique. For, I do not want to believe that, the good lecturer is one of those who mistakenly equate good performance of duty to being vociferous about what you perform and publicly present to blow your horn. The hamble, well articulated, competent and hard-working Minister is definitely not one of those. I wished the good lecturer would come again!
Respectfully, I believe Madam Gloria did less than a grade 'C'. As well, the madam at the sanitation ministry did not do well at all. That department needs someone who hates 'filth', and cannot allow 'filth' to overwhelm them, at every cost. A real 'filth' fighter. The 'senior' minister needs to retire with the title & portfolio. The deputy trade minister, a walking time-bomb; adieus. I don't know how a 'patapaa' person can work under the 'cool & quiet' minister. That quasi- 'aliens compliance' action, was very bad. Ghana has millions of her citizens living outside the country, with a handle doing so illegally or engaged in 'non-legal' acts. Just keep looking the other way, whilst ensuring 'criminal' elements are purged.
And replace them with who?