Minister Admits "89 of Us Are Too many" is the banner headline of the Dispatch. The paper reports that there are encouraging signs for observers of government policies that President Rawlings will keep his word to reduce the number of Ministers of state. The paper says this will reduce government expenditure and claims that informal interviews conducted with some of the ministers had one of them blurting "My man I agree that 89 of us are too many. The President needs to cut down the number". Others are said to have disagreed with the assertion that maintaining this number of ministers raises state expenditure since they get fringe benefits such as houses and cars. According to the paper, one dissenting Minister asked, " are you guys serious? The President hires and fires and if he thinks all of us can do the job why not? He however acknowledged that a sizable number of them are doing the work of some civil servants. The list of Ministers includes 20 Cabinet Ministers, 2 non-Cabinet Ministers, 20 Regional Ministers and their deputies, 33 Deputy Ministers and 14 Ministers of State/ Presidential staffers.
Minister Admits "89 of Us Are Too many" is the banner headline of the Dispatch. The paper reports that there are encouraging signs for observers of government policies that President Rawlings will keep his word to reduce the number of Ministers of state. The paper says this will reduce government expenditure and claims that informal interviews conducted with some of the ministers had one of them blurting "My man I agree that 89 of us are too many. The President needs to cut down the number". Others are said to have disagreed with the assertion that maintaining this number of ministers raises state expenditure since they get fringe benefits such as houses and cars. According to the paper, one dissenting Minister asked, " are you guys serious? The President hires and fires and if he thinks all of us can do the job why not? He however acknowledged that a sizable number of them are doing the work of some civil servants. The list of Ministers includes 20 Cabinet Ministers, 2 non-Cabinet Ministers, 20 Regional Ministers and their deputies, 33 Deputy Ministers and 14 Ministers of State/ Presidential staffers.
