President has stated the reason behind the scrapping of the Ministry of Information by his government.
Speaking to the media at an engagement on January 23, 2025, President Mahama said that the ministry was scrapped to help achieve his promise to reduce the size of government. "With regards to government communications, you would notice that there is no Ministry of Information in the line-up of 23 ministries that we recently announced. "That was partly in response to our promise to downsize government," he said.
The president indicated that the role of the Ministry of Information, which is to disseminate information to the people of Ghana, has now been shifted to the presidency through the creation of the Minister of State in charge of communication, which is likely to be headed by , the Acting Spokesperson of the President. "But then it also meant that we had to be very strategic with the way we dealt with the flow of information from the government because that is critical to the success of whatever we intend to do. "And so the structure we took was to bring information into the presidency and that is how come we have a Minister of State in charge of government communication.
And then to make sure that we are able to anchor it with a string of strong communication professionals in the most critical sectors.
