Yaw Adomako Baafi, the Acting Communication Director of the New patriotic Party, (NPP) has warnred the government appointees to be extra careful how they deal with civil servants, more especially chief directors of their respective Ministries.

Mr Baafi has said appointees to be mindful of the opposition elements who are still handling key positions in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies and thread mindfully, warning that these elements are deliberately setting up traps for them, to fall into  and then release the information  to the media to use  against them.

He further charged the appointees to spend time to critically examine every document that is given to them to ensure that there is no room for any shady transaction which could be used as a corruption tag on them.

“I want to tell our people to be extra careful and also open their eyes when documents are handed over to them,” he advised.

The Communications Director cited the recent saga over the Budget of the Ministry of Special Development led by Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson as well as the controversial $100,000 which was allegedly demanded from expatriates, who sat with the President at the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards, claiming that the unfortunate incidents were part of the schemes of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) elements to discredit the governing party.

The Ministry of Special Development's issue for instance, which emerged that an amount of GHC 800,000 had been budgeted for the development of a website for that Ministry, Yaw Adomako Baafi claims he and other members of the NPP communication team met with the Chief Director of the Ministry at the Castle prior to the Budget presentation in Parliament and demanded to know the details of their the budget, a request which he blatantly refused.

“We kept asking the Chief Director to let us have the details of their budget but this man refused and gave flimsy excuses,” he noted.

However he stated that he was not surprised that the same budget which they requested to know its content but were refused later became an issue in the media for discussions.

Ghanaguardian.com