State Institutions can’t escape politics while their bosses are political appointees – CDD Fellow

“If I have made someone the head, the administrative head of a state institution, but I’m seeing 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.”“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.”Dr Osae-Kwapong said NDC legal team member Abraham Amaliba raises “a good point” about separating the administrative behaviour of state institutions from politics.