The Minority Caucus in Parliament has called President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to quickly combined ministries and reduce the number of presidential staffers.
In a address to the media on Monday, February 20, Minority Leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, said, with the prevailing economic crisis, it is unsound for the president to designate more ministers, troubling already distressed public purse.
The Minority Leader needs the Minister of Food and Agriculture converged with the Fisheries Ministry and the Chieftaincy Ministry converged with the Tourism Ministry. The Minority is also requiring the Sanitation and the Local Government Ministry to be converged to help reducing the size of the government.
The Minority caucus also wants the Information and Communication ministries to be merged and the Transport and Railways ministries also merged.
The Minority caucus has also served notice that they will participate in Monday's vetting however will reject the approval of all the nominees.
"We in the Minority wish to clarify that we remain committed to ensure greater scrutiny and will pull out all the stops to protect the public purse. In accordance with this, we are participating in the vetting process so that at the very minimum, we can scrutinize the President's decision in bringing up those nominees people. Nonetheless, the Minority won't buy into an agreement vote at the level of the Appointment Committee."
In addition to other things, the Minority is also difficult the "prompt rejecting of every undefined creation and waste-pipe, work for-the-boy' appointment since the assumption of office of President Akufo Addo in 2017. The work of those undefined, amorphous creations must return to established out entities in the civil and public service that perform similar, in the event that not similar capabilities."
The group additionally emphasized its require the "excusal of the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta whose gross inadequacy in managing with our economy has assumed legendary status. The President should save Ghanaians the agony of waking up tomorrow to see Ken Ofori-Atta still in charge for the economy."