‘Ministermania’; a symptom of a larger problem

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• Koo 8 years ago

  Ma bruda (or sista), na true you talk oooo.
  
  The cultural aspect of your analysis is actually a national malady. Woe unto anyone who doesn't address these guys as 'Hon Minister' even if their duties are not exactly ministe ...
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  Ma bruda (or sista), na true you talk oooo.
  
  The cultural aspect of your analysis is actually a national malady. Woe unto anyone who doesn't address these guys as 'Hon Minister' even if their duties are not exactly ministerial. And if they are PhD holders or Professors, these titles must be added too.
  
  This need to fashion a syestem that is not exactly presidential or a cabinet system is leading us astray. We really need a constitutional overhaul to correct this. The original idea may have been to pick the best talent even from outside parliament but this can never be achieved as long as in the choice of ministers, party affiliation and loyalty to party trumps competence. It's all patronage.
  
  Right now, the president wants ethnic balance in his cabinet and must include Ewes. But the most competent Ewes are not members of his party. So he has a smaller base of competence to pick from and the job goes to the Ewes who had remained loyal to the party, not the most competent ones.
  
  Another party comes and also does the same thing.
  
  Yes, the constitution can be tweaked to address the issue but what changes will these be?
  
  Good article, yes.

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• kwam, 8 years ago

  l agree with you 100%, it time to review the 1992-constitution to put a sealing on the maximum numbers of ministers a president can appointment. we seems not to be a serious country. Even the USA had a lesser ministers so why ...
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  l agree with you 100%, it time to review the 1992-constitution to put a sealing on the maximum numbers of ministers a president can appointment. we seems not to be a serious country. Even the USA had a lesser ministers so why we a poor country

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• Prof Lungu 8 years ago

  Henry Kwasi Prempeh,
  Great piece!
  
  Only we'd wished the reform of the wart-infested Rawlings Constitution had been front and center, even in the title of your essay.
  
  There ought to be a demand!
  
  This matter is too imp ...
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  Henry Kwasi Prempeh,
  Great piece!
  
  Only we'd wished the reform of the wart-infested Rawlings Constitution had been front and center, even in the title of your essay.
  
  There ought to be a demand!
  
  This matter is too important to be relegated to the bottom of such a good essay.
  
  Above all, it is political. It is abuse!
  
  No individual person or political party ought to be able to create Regions, upon Regions, upon Regions, just because!
  
  And Ministries, upon Ministries, upon Ministries.
  
  At the very least, all of this smacks of executive over-reach. And gradual break-down of Unitary Ghana.
  
  It is the crooked Rawlings Constitution and absent-mindedness on the part of a great majority of Ghanaians who as a group ought to know better. But, they do not seem not to care!
  
  Akufo Addo promised to finish every on-going project. Completing the work started already on the Constitution is the most important, in our humble opinion.
  
  Thanks.

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