Former Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has condemned President Akufo-Addo’s “frivolous” staff at the Jubilee House, and wants Ghanaians to rise up before it would be too late.
Commenting on the list of 998 staff released by President Akufo-Addo as workers at the seat of government on 3FM’s News Hour Friday, Kwakye Ofosu minced no words calling the list “totally outrageous, totally unjustifiable”.
“In all honesty, the president has done a terrible deed by appointing all these number of people. He is deliberately wasting taxpayers’ money, and all of us as Ghanaians must rise up and question his conduct, and not allow him to run this country aground before we express regret at a later date, when it would be too late.”
The former deputy minister accused the president of constituting a government full of family and friends.
“This is the president who appears only interested in enhancing the fortunes of his relatives, family and friends and members of the NPP. It appears to me that the victory that he chalked in 2016 was a personal triumph to do what he pleases as president; it was never about the people, otherwise he would not be conducting himself like he is doing,” Kwakye Ofosu commented.
In his assessment, the 998 in addition to the over 100 ministers and deputies appointed last year, shows that President Akufo-Addo “has no respect for the people of this country”.
He was amused that the NPP government whilst in opposition criticised the 678 presidential staffers and civil staffers under former President Mahama, but has failed to maintain the number if it cannot reduce it.
He said the government is dissipating the taxpayers money “for greater comfort of NPP who are not adding any significant improvement in the lives of Ghanaians”.
kwakye Ofosu was also shocked by a secretariat established at the presidency for the construction of a national cathedral headed by Dr Paul Opoku Mensah, when the cathedral he said would be built by the private sector.
“This is a man willing to dissipate the resources of our people with reckless abundance,” he asserted, “Akufo-Addo and NPP are hypocritical”.
He also wondered if Ghana runs a monarch to have a lady-in-waiting among the list of staffers.
Source: 3news.com
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No Ghanaian who now has a functional NHIS card will rise up. Only NDC ministers who were taking DOUBLE salaries monthly from 2013 to 2016 and no more have free fuel are finding life hard in Ghana now. Ofosu Kwakye and that incompetent and CORRU(*PT Mahama will for EVER remain in their DREAMS! 'Obi nyane NDC fo', yon ada'!
I am literate enough to realize that nana addo is worse than John mahama. John mahama's problem was that he and his minister were not good at defending some of the good things he did. This government is not spending money to support Ghanaians, its spending none on itself. Nana addo is a trickster. What tricksters do is to give you a gift of 100 Ghana and when he sees you have received your salary, he comes back to borrow 1000 Ghana from you knowing he once gave you are gift of 100 Ghana and later refuses to pay. This is why nana addo introduced the free SHS for people to think he is going to do something special but in reality all hr is doing is wasting our scarce resources thinking Ghanaians are dumb to think free shs is ok for them. How can you say mahama was wasting our money on to come and appoint 110 ministers, appoint CEOs with four deputies each and a lot of unnecessary appointment and job for the boys. Even prophet Owusu bempah is now part of nana addo government for prophesying lies in campaign for nana addo. It's so said numerous Ghanaians students and youth who voted for him are still unemployed whiles he keeps employing all his family members and friends. This is too bad.