The Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has told President John Dramani Mahama that his strategy of appointing more presidential staffers because he cannot appoint more ministers has been widely exposed. "The president says he has delivered less ministers but his strategy is, if less, then more divide.

You have appointed few ministers but more and more presidential staffers and more and more committees," Afenyo-Markin said after the President's state of the nation address in Parliament on Thursday February 27.

Afenyo-Markin further told President John Dramani Mahama that at the time that he is complaining about rising youth unemployment, his administration, in less than one hundred days, has sacked a lot of youth who were employed by the previous administration.

He said "he is telling us today that we have 2.2million youths unemployed but what he has forgotten is that in his administration, in less than 100 days all we know is sack them, and dismissals, On the streets of Accra today, the youth of the country are saying Mahama baako termination bebreebeee [To wit: With Just Mahama, we have a lot of termination of appointments]." During the SONA, President John Dramani Mahama said that youth unemployment is the biggest challenge facing Ghana.