Political appointments make EOCO, other state institutions look partisan – Osae-Kwapong
“When the cases involve these high-profile or these politically exposed persons, either a very prominent party official or they may have served in government, all of those things throw in another range and another dynamic that makes it challenging to think of this purely as state administrative behaviour,” he said.“If I have made someone the head, the administrative head of a state institution, but I’m seeing a repeated behaviour of things that offends the Constitution, then as the appointing authority, one of the lines of accountability is to say maybe I need to rethink that decision,” he said.
A Fellow at the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana), Dr John Osae-Kwapong, says the political appointment of heads of key state institutions makes it difficult for the public to separate administrative actions from partisan politics.
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