Amenfi West MP, Eric Afful accuses the NPP of not having interest in technocrats; he explains…

The MP for Wassa Amenfi West in the Western Region, Eric Afful, is accusing President Nana Akufo Addo of not having trust and interest in technocrats at the various ministries and other government agencies in the country.

He told Apt News’ Dominic Awuni, that the President is only trying to satisfy Ghanaians who helped him in his presidential bid.

Wading into the on-going debates on the 110 ministers appointed by Nana Addo Danquah Akufo Addo to serve in his government, Hon. Eric Afful sought to know what the administrators and directors in the public and civil services do.

“But what is the work of administrators in various ministries, departments and agencies; we have directors, chief directors, those are the people who do the proper implementation of the policies”.

“The only way that any Ghanaian may think for this action is that the President wants to satisfy Ghanaians who helped him during the elections”, he said.

Hon. Afful explained that a minister’s job is just to initiate policy and make sure that the implementation is done by the technical people.

“I don’t think they are going to de-silt gutters…it’s done by the technocrats. So it is telling me that the NPP administration doesn’t have interest in the technocrats”.

President Akufo Addo has since defended his appointments saying the enormous challenges facing the country require the 110 ministers to manage the situation.

But Hon. Eric Afful disagrees. “This is not politics, ok you are telling Ghanaians that the economy is not good, you see, you are claiming that about 90.6 percent of our IGF goes to emoluments, goes to debt servicing, goes to other areas…we understand it…so how are you getting the space to pay the 110 ministers? You see, it’s too contradictory”.

The Amenfi West MP noted that it is not only the NDC which is talking, and that everybody is talking, “even this morning, Al-jazeera, BBC, they have been discussing this for about three days now”.

“I don’t think it’s good for a country like Ghana, we are growing” he concluded.

By:Joe Bright Nyarko