PPP National Chairman, Nana Ofori Owusu has asked the ruling government to "reduce the number of ministers to 14".
According to him, it does not make sense for government to increase taxes and put other measures in place while his government is still "oversized".
"They should reduce the number of Ministers to 14 and a total not greater than 35 including their deputies. You can't tell us that there is a problem yet you have a big government . . . you won't cut down your people but rather wants the citizen to suffer from a huge oversized govenrment," he said on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo'.
" . . stop pleasing party members and please Ghanaians. Taking these austere measures won't make sense when you have not reduced the size of government . . . Ghana is too small for all of these ministries to be there, Jubilee House staff should be cut down by 60 percent . . . " he added.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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YES YOU ARE RIGHT SIR. THE SIZE OF THE GOVERNMENT CAN BE REDUCED TO 35. THE COST OF GOVERNANCE IS ONE OF THE PROBLEM OF THIS GOVERNMENT. THEY ARE STUBBORN AND WILL NOT LISTEN. EVEN THE SIZE OF OUR PARLIAMENT IS ALSO TOO BIG. WE HAVE A BUNCH OF LAZY FOLKS WHO ARE ALWAYS ABSENT. THAT NUMBER MUST BE REDUCED TO EVEN 150 OR 200 WHEN CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TIME COMES.
Many people are calling for the sack of some government appointees as a measure to cut down on government expenditure. How will the affected public servants and their dependants survive.
well said, the fisheries ministry should be part of the agriculture ministry, transport ministry should be added to roads and highways, planning should be part of the finance ministry, sanitation and water resources should be part of the works and housing ministry, public sector reforms should be a secretariat managed by civil servants headed by a chief director, no minister of state at any ministry, one deputy per ministry. Currently MMDCE's have no deputies in the assemblies, it's the coordination directors who are more or less assisting the MMDCEs, why can't the chief directors do same at the ministry level? After all it's the civil servants in the various ministries, departments and agencies who are doing all the paper work. Leadership must be by example, if a leader is not ready to practice what he preaches, bet me, the citizens will not sacrifice. Let's face it Ghana has found itself in a ditch, when you drive your vehicle into a ditch you need the support of others to pull it out, attempting to pull it out alone will see the tyres further going down into the ditch.But to get the support of others you the driver must show commitment.