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.<\/p>\n
He told Apt News\u2019<\/strong> Dominic Awuni, that the President is only trying to satisfy Ghanaians who helped him in his presidential bid.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n \u201cBut 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\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cThe only way that any Ghanaian may think for this action is that the President wants to satisfy Ghanaians who helped him during the elections\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n Hon. Afful explained that a minister\u2019s job is just to initiate policy and make sure that the implementation is done by the technical people.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think they are going to de-silt gutters\u2026it\u2019s done by the technocrats. So it is telling me that the NPP administration doesn\u2019t have interest in the technocrats\u201d.<\/p>\n President Akufo Addo has since defended his appointments saying the enormous challenges facing the country require the 110 ministers to manage the situation.<\/p>\n But Hon. Eric Afful disagrees. \u201cThis 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\u2026we understand it\u2026so how are you getting the space to pay the 110 ministers? You see, it\u2019s too contradictory\u201d.<\/p>\n The Amenfi West MP noted that it is not only the NDC which is talking, and that everybody is talking, \u201ceven this morning, Al-jazeera, BBC, they have been discussing this for about three days now\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s good for a country like Ghana, we are growing\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n By:Joe Bright Nyarko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"