Mills Reshuffles Soon

... To Escape Judgement Day at Tamale Congress?

Anxious Ghana so buried deep in the throes of a debilitating economic malaise wait with bated breath and clasped fingers this week, as President J.E.A. Mills finds that needful baritone voice to announce a-longer-than-expected reshuffle. THE SUN can state with all the certainty at its disposal that aside the ministerial earthquake to come, there is also the expected announcement across board among the state institutions, whose tortoise–slow progress has stilled the wheels of national advancement.

Of the lot, the information and communication ministries where government is thought to have lost grounds considerably will see changes, according to flesh-on-skull sources at the seat of government.

The amateurish handling of the Information Ministry which has made government the butt of political jokes, as well as the strange departure from mainstream NDC party lines in the Communications Ministry by Minister Haruna Iddrisu, would almost certainly be addressed. Also to be tackled, according to Castle sources is the confusion that has rocked the President’s communications department at the Osu Castle, where apparent arrogance would be weeded out in favour of humility and charm.

The nation’s oil world should also come under some fine-tuning especially with the horde of accusations that have bedeviled the industry, culminating in a time-span of 11 months before the first consignment of crude oil touched base at the Tema Oil Refinery.

The reshuffle is thought to hit target at a time there is so much hue and cry in the ruling party whose presidency stands accused in several AKATAMANSO HEARTS that, opposition elements have been recycled into key positions in the name of playing a father to all Ghanaians.

But with the NDC congress just around the bend at Tamale of all places, hot-heads within the Party claim they have read between the lines and would not be wooed over by the last-minute cosmetic dress-up.

Party agents have never stopped whining that the smartest propaganda trick cannot dribble their resolve to vote hot-headed elements with lines of support from the cadre community into office.

One such official bound for Tamale but stationed among the NDC constituency executive caucus in the Upper-East Region Ishahaque Bature, has told THE SUN in a telephone chat that it is the only way to ensure that the NDC stays in the embrace of true-blue elements who have soldiered on for years.