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Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah, Governance lecturer at the Central University, has expressed shock at President Nana Akufo-Addo s appointment of three Deputy Ministers to a Ministry.
President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday released a list of his Deputy Ministers-designate to assist the Ministers in various Ministries.
The Ministries of Trade, Energy and Local Government, Decentralization & Rural Dev t, Trade & Industry, as well as Energy, have 3 deputy ministers each.
The nominees are however, yet to be vetted and approved by the Appointments Committee in Parliament.
Speaking to host Kwami Sefa Kayi on
Peace FM s
Kokrokoo , Dr. Otchere-Ankrah believed three (3) is a crowd, and a Ministry should have Deputy Ministers not exceeding two.
Administrator General hands over notes to 2020 transition team
Administrator General, Alhaji Yakubu Atsulor, has handed over notes from 54 out of 56 government departments and agencies to the 2020 transition team.
The handing over notes are expected to facilitate the work of the 15-member team in ensuring a smooth transition of power.
The Presidential (Transition) Act, 2012, (Act 845), regulates the political transfer of power and for related matters.
For an incumbent President, the law states that if re-elected for a second term, he or she “shall designate members of the Transition Team.”
In accordance with the provisions of the Act, when Nana Akufo-Addo was given nod to govern for another four-year term after the December 7 elections, he appointed the 15-member transition team to ensure effective transfer of political power from the current administration to the next.
Some members of the 15-member team at the inauguration on Wednesday
A 15-member transition team constituted by President-elect Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo following his re-election to serve a second term begun work on Wednesday, December 16, 2020.
The 15-member team, Chaired by Chief of Staff, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare, officially started work after she led a short inauguration ceremony.
At the ceremony, Administrator General, Alhaji Yakubu Atsulor, handed over notes from 54 out of 56 Ministries and Regional Coordinating Councils spread across the country.
The Chief of Staff said the inauguration ceremony “represents the start of the formal working meeting of the transition to set agenda and pursue task assigned to us.”
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The Chief of Staff, Madam Akosua Frema Osei-Opare has been appointed as the chairperson of the 15-member presidential transition team.
The Director of Communications at the Presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin made this known in a press statement issued Thursday night [December 10, 2020]
The Presidential (Transition) Act, 2012, (Act 845), enacted to govern the transition from one administration to another stipulates that within 24 hours of the declaration of the results of the presidential election by the Electoral Commission, the President shall constitute the members of the Transition Team.
Section 1(3) of the Act stipulates that “where the incumbent President is re-elected for a second term, the President shall designate members of the Transition Team.