Fritz Baffour, a former member of parliament for the Ablekuma South Constituency, has defended President Nana Akufo-Addo over his appointment of 110 ministers.
The president has come under fire from many Ghanaians for the move which they say does not augur well for the public purse.
The president’s communication team, led by Information Minister Mustapha Hamid , has sought to explain his position, stressing that he did not promise a lean government and that he needs all those ministers in order to fulfill his promise.
That, however, has not tempered the criticism from the public.
In a reaction on Accra-based Citi FM, Fritz Baffour, a member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and former minister for information, said there was nothing wrong with Akufo-Addo’s decision to appoint 110 ministers.
He said the constitution of Ghana gives Nana Ado the power to appoint as many ministers as he wishes.
“The thing is that, we have a constitution and our politics is ruled by our constitution, and if the president decides that it is within the bound of the constitution to appoint many ministers, that is up to him; but the thing is that it is within his constitutional mandate so there is nothing wrong with that. If you have a very large government, a large number of appointees and you don’t deliver, then you are in trouble and that is what I am seeing,†he said.
Akufo-Addo's government is the biggest in the Fourth Republic, with the number of his ministers surpassing the previous administration by 30.