President of policy think-tank, IMANI Africa, Mr Franklin Cudjoe, has criticised the record appointment and the huge staff at the Presidency by President Nana Akufo-Addo saying it’s only “making former President Mahama a saint.”
The situation, according to Mr Cudjoe, is the hallmark of unplanned policy programmes and a clear case of ‘official waste’ in the system.
In a post on his Facebook page, Mr Cudjoe intimated that “Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) planned to spend GH¢768.10m on office of government machinery in 2016, but a supplementary budget adjusted it upwards to almost GH¢ 3 billion but ended up spending more than GH¢ 6.1 billion an overrun of nearly GH¢ 3 billion in 2017, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) planned to spend GH¢ 1.5 billion on the office of government machinery.
“Notice a doubling of the NDC’s planned expenditure. We are yet to know the overruns from the Audit report for 2017. In 2018, the NPP plans to spend GH¢ 3 billion on the office of government machinery. So, you see where I am drawing my inferences? It may even be worse when the actuals come.”
His comments followed the release of a list of 998 current staffers and Ministers of State at the presidency to Parliament for the purposes of accountability.
The list, which is for the period January 7, 2017 to December 31, 2017, is in line with the constitution and the Presidential Office Act 1993, which enjoins the Presidency to annually brief Parliament on the list of persons who work at the Presidency.
But, the disclosure has triggered public debate with the opposition referring to the size of the employees in the office of the president as ‘obese’ government.
The situation, according to Mr Cudjoe, is the hallmark of unplanned policy programmes and a clear case of ‘official waste’ in the system.
In a post on his Facebook page, Mr Cudjoe intimated that “Mahama’s National Democratic Congress (NDC) planned to spend GH¢768.10m on office of government machinery in 2016, but a supplementary budget adjusted it upwards to almost GH¢ 3 billion but ended up spending more than GH¢ 6.1 billion an overrun of nearly GH¢ 3 billion in 2017, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) planned to spend GH¢ 1.5 billion on the office of government machinery.
“Notice a doubling of the NDC’s planned expenditure. We are yet to know the overruns from the Audit report for 2017. In 2018, the NPP plans to spend GH¢ 3 billion on the office of government machinery. So, you see where I am drawing my inferences? It may even be worse when the actuals come.”
His comments followed the release of a list of 998 current staffers and Ministers of State at the presidency to Parliament for the purposes of accountability.
The list, which is for the period January 7, 2017 to December 31, 2017, is in line with the constitution and the Presidential Office Act 1993, which enjoins the Presidency to annually brief Parliament on the list of persons who work at the Presidency.
But, the disclosure has triggered public debate with the opposition referring to the size of the employees in the office of the president as ‘obese’ government.
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