· Ministers Panic and Kickstart lobbying
· Mike Hammah, Hannah on their way out?
Official sources have confirmed Daily Post’s earlier publication that the mother of all reshuffles will soon hit the nation.
They have further confirmed reports that the reshuffle may claim Transport Minister Mike Hammah and Trades Minister, Hannah Tetteh, as casualties.
The Transport Minister, according to impeccable sources, has made himself unpopular at the Presidency following a litany of revelations that he has and is still flirting busily with New Patriotic Party moles, an action which may derail the Better Ghana agenda.
In one of the instances cited, Mike Hammah is said to have been strongly lobbying for Mr. Chris Quaye, a die-in-the-wool NPP chap to become Deputy Managing Director of the Ghana Airport Company Limited. (GACL) Mr. Quaye, who knows next to nothing about Aviation, was hurriedly appointed by the Kufuor government to the management of the GACL.
Though a damning audit report currently hangs around his neck, Mr. Hammah is said to be moving heaven and earth to ensure this goes through.
The Transport Minister is also linked to another NPP square peg at the GACL, Mr. Yaw Kwakwa. Mr. Kwakwa, who is also handicapped in aviation issues, was flown down from Canada by the erstwhile NPP government to become Deputy Managing Director of GACL without recourse to laid down procedures of employment.
Party insiders told Daily Post the Minister’s flirtations with the NPP are more pronounced when he went for the biological brother of Mrs. Gloria Akuffo, former Minister of Aviation in the Kufuor regime to become his personal driver. In a recent interview with this reporter, Mike Hammah said he did not know that the driver is a brother to Mrs. Akuffo.
“I applied to the Ministry for a driver and they gave him to me. I didn’t know he is NPP,” he said. The Transport Minister however lied when he told this reporter that he has never lobbied for Mr. Quaye for the post of Deputy Managing Director. Daily Postdiscovered the shocker when it stumbled upon a letter written by Mr. Hammah dated 18th September 2009, to the Secretary of the President seeking approval for the appointment of Mr. Quaye as Deputy MD of GACL.
Sources say this litany of flirtations has caused the anger of many party gurus who want him removed for sabotaging the Better Ghana agenda.
With regards to the PSC Tema Shipyard, Mr. Hammah has been partnering the Malaysian saboteurs to prevent a complete government take-over of the entity. The imminent reshuffle has as its heartbeat the major objective to ensure efficiency. Usually reliable sources further disclosed that Trades Minister, Hannah Tetteh, at a recent stakeholders’ meeting in destination inspection at the Castle displayed gross disrespect to the President.
“This particular incident which you also reported in your newspaper has also incensed the Presidency. They cannot continue to harbour her in government to continue on that path,” the source stressed.
With that incidence vividly recalled, party insiders observe that Hannah Tetteh’s cup is full and she may have to find alternative areas of employment. The reshuffle, according to sources, was to be announced in June/July but President Mills is said to be breezing with a shocker as he keeps close to his chest the actual date to announce it.
Ever since Daily Post hit town with the upcoming reshuffle, some Ministers have begun extreme lobbying to keep their jobs.
One Minister is reported to have gone to the President to brief him on the work he has so far done at his Ministry. The Minister presented some policy actions and said that he will need 16 months to implement them.
Other Ministers have sought refuge very senior government officials, trying to win their hearts in order for intense lobbying at the Presidency.
Daily Postintelligence has spotted other Ministers who have constantly been knocking at the doors of NDC power brokers to do their bidding for them.
Daily Postnews hounds have also picked up further indications of moves to scuttle original plans to swap three Ministers.
According to initial plans, a Ministerial diva who has made the NPP hot is to take the place of another Minister as Ghana’s international policy chief negotiator. The latter, a crack lawyer, will then head that domestic unit to supervise and co-ordinate the security agencies in maintaining law and order.
In Mathematical permutations, a recently appointed Minister in charge of internal security will move to that Ministry where everybody believes he’ll give thieving ex-Ministers sleepless nights and have justice delivered to Ghanaians. Stay tuned!
