Former Attorney General, Minister of Justice, and NPP presidential contender Mr Joe Ghartey has said that if elected President of Ghana, he will select 60 ministries.
In an interview with Umara Sanda Amadu on Tuesday’s Eyewitness News, he revealed this.
He made this statement in answer to a query that called the 111 ministers that President Nana Akufo-Addo appointed during his first term “bloated.”
In opposition to the claim that the Akufo-Addo administration was overburdened, Mr Ghartey asserted that during the president’s first term, his approach to the size of government resulted in 9% growth.
He continued by saying that when requested to draft the legal document establishing the new Ministry while serving as Attorney-General under President Kufuor, he questioned the President as to why he was establishing a Ministry of Aviation.
He claimed that President Kufuor suggested that one method a government might concentrate on a certain sector was to isolate it and establish a Ministry with a Minister in charge of it.
When, for instance, he established the Ministry of Railways Development, President Akufo-Addo had this in mind, according to Mr Ghartey, and if it had remained a division of the Ministry of Transport, it might not have gotten the same level of attention as it does now.
The presidential candidate claimed that, due to the current situation, he had a different mindset and would have a lot smaller government.
He declared categorically that the overall number of ministers in his ministry, which would comprise 16 regional ministers and 19 members of the cabinet, would not exceed 60.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
