The Executive Secretary of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association, Ghana (CLOGSAG), Isaac Bampoe Addo has described the performance criteria that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo used for reshuffling his ministers as dangerous.
He noted that the reshuffling was based on how the Ministers who were lawmakers performed in the recently-held parliamentary primaries of the New Patriotic Pary (NPP), not based on the actual performance of their work in the office.
Mr Bampoe Addo wants the President to have a second look at the basis for reshuffling his ministers.
Speaking in an interview with TV3’s Daniel Opoku on Thursday, February 15, he said “Is the government telling us that that is the benchmark for their performance? That you don’t even look at the impact that they are having at their ministries, their competence at their ministries but you are measuring them by an election in the primaries at their constituencies. Is this now the performance benchmark you are looking at? Then we should not hear anybody talking about performance in the public service.
“Because this is the benchmark that the highest level of governance in this country has given for ministers, not that they are performing in their ministries but it is based upon how they performed in their primaries at the constituencies.
“I think this is something we have to look at because it is dangerous for our development if this is the performance criteria that is being used.”
President Akufo-Addo relieved Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta of his portfolio in government, with immediate effect.
Several ministers have been removed from their positions in Ghana’s government. The list includes Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Information Minister, Francis Asenso Boakye, the Works and Housing Minister, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, the Health Minister, Kwasi Anoako Attah, the Roads and Highways Minister, Hon. Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, the Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Hon. Lariba Abudu, the Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister, Hon. Dan Botwe, the Local Government, Decentralization and Rural Development Minister, Hon. Freda Prempeh, the Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Ibrahim Mohammed Awal, the Tourism, Arts and Culture Minister, Hon. Henry Quartey, the Greater Accra Region Minister, and Mr. Joseph Makubu, the Oti Region representative.
