Minister of State-designate for Public Sector Reforms, Lydia Lamisi Akanvariba, has hit back at private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu for calling her experience into question following her nomination by President .
Appearing before Parliament's Appointments Committee on Monday, February 24, 2025, the minister-designate affirmed her readiness to deliver on the mandate, adding that experience is not the sole determinant of suitability to occupy public office. "My responsibility at the ministry is to collaborate and provide leadership so that the structures at the ministry will work.
The president has interacted with me; he knows my capabilities, and I don't think he has made a mistake by appointing me as the public sector reforms minister.
I want to assure Ghanaians and lawyer Martin Kpebu that if it were about experience, they would have asked professors to be the president of this country because they have a lot of experience-they have learned a lot-or the minister for health should have been a professor and not any other person," she said.
