Claims that President John Dramani Mahama has appointed 100 people to be presidential staffers have been denied by Felix Kwakye Ofosu, Minister of State for Government Communications.
He claims that only 30 staff members have been appointed by the president, which is a much smaller number than the previous administration had.
This statement is in response to statements made by Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Member of Parliament for Damongo, who claimed that President Mahama had not fulfilled his promise to form a lean government by appointing more than 100 staffers to the presidency and more than 60 ministers as promised.
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Speaking on the issue at a news conference on Friday, March 7, 2025, Kwakye Ofosu denied any allegations of nepotism and said that all presidential workers had been openly declared.He claims that only 30 staff members have been appointed by the president, which is a much smaller number than the previous administration had. This statement is in response to statements made by Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Member of Parliament for Damongo, who claimed that President Mahama had not fulfilled his promise to form a lean government by appointing more than 100 staffers to the presidency and more than 60 ministers as promised.
Everybody who has been appointed as a presidential staffer has been named in a statement signed by me. So, currently, there are 27 presidential staffers. All of them were publicly announced, unlike in the past when we only learned of them when the president submitted a list of presidential staff to parliament.
“This time, we went ahead to inform the people of Ghana and left nobody in doubt about the numbers.
“In addition to these 27, three people have been appointed to assist with some specific interventions that the president wants to undertake. They are referred to as directors. They do not have the ranking of presidential staffers, so they are described as presidential aides.
“If you add it to the list of staffers, there are just 30 people. Beyond that, no other staffers or presidential aides have been appointed,” he stated.
