Stop presenting yourselves as reps of Akufo-Addo – Minority to Ministers-designate

The Minority in Parliament has called for Ministers-designate to refrain from assuming the role of representatives of the president, urging the Chief of Staff to revoke any unauthorized appointments of Minister-designates as presidential representatives.

In a statement issued by Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, the Ranking Member on the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health and MP for Juaboso, the Minority emphasized that Minister-designates, as nominees of the President, lack the authority to instruct or implement policy changes within ministry agencies.

“The Minister-designate who is only a nominee of the President has no authority whatsoever to instruct or direct, implement or propose policy changes for agencies within a sector ministry and therefore under what power or authority does he/she summon CEOs and other heads of institutions, who may be busy with their official schedules, to grant him audience or presentations on their management of state institutions?

“The Minority in Parliament would therefore like to advise the Chief of Staff to revoke all illegal appointments appointing Minister-designates as Representatives of the President

We further caution persons so appointed to stop holding themselves out as Representatives of the President to designated Ministries

The minority pointed out that the 1992 constitution does not support the creation of representatives of the President in Ministries of State.

“Therefore, for a highly regulated power centre such as the Presidency, it is ultra vires for the Chief of Staff who derives all her powers from the President as prescribed by the 1992 constitution to be creating new offices alien to the constitution.”