Deputy
Communications Director of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Ernest
Owusu Bempah has expressed disgust at the number of staffers working at
the Presidency.
Owusu Bempah found it ridiculous that President John Mahama would appoint such numbers and use State money to remunerate them.
According
to him, the staffers have been utterly inept in their duties and so,
believed it's a "waste" for such number of people to strut their stuff
the Flagstaff House.
Over 600 Presidential staffers have been recorded to be working at the Flagstaff House.
The
list included Ministers of State at the Presidency, Senior Presidential
advisers, Presidential aides, Staff from the Ghana Health Service,
Controller and Accountant General's Department, Gardeners, Night
watchmen, Household staff among others.
In fact, it is reported to be a tall list at the Presidency.
The
numbers seem to have inflamed the passion of the NDP Communicator who
expressed emphatically that it is a complete “disgrace” to the
government machinery.
He disclosed that "even NGOs automatically
metamorphosize (metamorphose) into Presidential Staffers, only under
this regime" and further indicated that he's privy to information that
some staffers are "fourteen year old who are people’s children and their
names are included in the list…It tells that they are all happy with
their mediocre performance. That’s a sign of bad leadership.”
According
to Owusu Bempah, it is very shocking that Ghana, under the leadership
of President John Mahama, has such humongous number of people at the
Presidency when "a whole United States of America, the whole United
States of America, with almost about 52 or something States, their
Presidential Staffers including Staff who work at the Presidency are not
up to even 50…Then, how much more Ghana where poor governance has
characterized the nation?”
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