Former Deputy Minister of Communications, Felix Ofosu Kwakye has viciously slammed President Akufo-Addo over his response to criticism against his large government.

According to the aspiring member of parliament, the explanation by President Akufo-Addo for appointing 125 ministers to serve in his government does not make sense.

President Nana Akufo-Addo has consistently justified his “elephant-sized” government, saying: “as you know there are some who say my government is too big and there are too many of you [Ministers]. I am a firm believer in the adage the proof of the pudding is in the eating.”

Mr. Ofosu Kwakye in an interview on citiFM, however, dismissed the justifications.

“The explanations [for a bloated government] we have had so far do not make sense. There are countries that are much bigger than Ghana, have much bigger populations, have more complex difficulties that do not have 125 Ministers.

“Yesterday I heard Herbert Krapah claim that for instance that the GDP growth of 6.7 percent is enough justification for having 125 Ministers. To begin with, that GDP in itself is a decline from 2017 when they had 8.1 percent because of 80.6 percent in oil production due to the work done by the Mahama administration.”


The flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama recently said he will scrap some of the newly created ministries by the Akufo-Addo administration if the NDC is voted back into power.
“We are said to have achieved a world record of 125 ministers. Definitely, some of those ministries will go under an NDC government,” the former President said.