Ofori-Atta should have been reshuffled but… – Addai-Nimoh

Former Member of Parliament for Mampong Francis Addai Nimo Nimoah has said it would have been ideal if President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had moved his Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to another Ministry.

For him, keeping one person at a particular Ministry for long is not the best.

He intimated that there are other men and women qualified to head the Finance Ministry apart from Mr Ofori-Atta.

He mentioned former lawmaker for New Juaben South Dr Mark Assibey-Yeboah as one of the persons who are qualified to be Finance Minister.

“A reshuffle of the Finance Minister would have been ideal but the back stops with the president,” he told Johnnie Hughes on the New Day show on TV3 Tuesday September 27.

He added “Of course I would have reshuffled him to another ministry like Health of Foreign Affairs and replace him with people like Assibey Yeboah. Assibey-Yeboah is no more and MP and Ofori-Atta is also not an MP.”

President Akufo-Addo recently said that most of his ministers have worked up to expectation.

He said their output has been considerable and that is what he looks at.

Mr Akufo-Addo said these when asked for his views on calls to reshuffle his ministers while speaking on North Star Radio in Tamale as part of his two-day tour of the Northern Region on Monday August 8.

“Many of them for me have done outstanding work,” he said.

“Their output has been considerable, and that is what I look at,” he added.

The president further indicated that “If the output measures expectations, then I don’t have any strong reasons to heed the call.”

Observers have been calling on the president to make changes as far as his appointees are concerned.

For example, a former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Kwabena Agyei Agyepong said that it was new in the country that for six years there has not been any major reshuffle among ministers under the Akufo-Addo government.

He thought that after the first four years in office the president would change some of his appointees following the way Ghanaians voted in the 2020 elections.

But he recognized that it is the prerogative of the president to hire and fire and that he is not the one to tell the President what to do.

“What is happening is novel” he told Johnnie Hughes on the New Day show on TV3 Monday June 13.

source:3news