Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh who was then Education Minister said some of the parents and students who fainted at Independence Square while in a queue to get placement into SHS staged their collapse.
According to him, they were bribed to collapse by unknown persons to mar the efforts of the Education Ministry to address the issues of placement of students into SHS. We opened the center at the independence square to address the needs of Ghanaians who want to go to school, but some evil people have decided to pay GH¢20 and GH¢50 to people to go there and stage fainting and collapse, yesterday some of the collapses were fake. I’m even wondering why they brought little kids to the centre.
Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, the Minister-designate for Justice and Attorney-General, says the Ministry would collaborate with the Finance Ministry to release funds to recruit an extra 500 state attorneys, if given the nod.
Answering questions from members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament, during his vetting, Mr Dame said the Akufo-Addo-led Administration, in its first term, recruited 110 state attorneys, bringing the total staff to 226.
However, the numbers were not sufficient to effectively perform the work of defending the state and government in court as mandated under Article 88 of the 1992 Constitution.
Commenting on the conditions of service of state attorneys, Mr Dame said though government had undertaken measures to improve those conditions, it was not satisfactory as there was insufficient desks and office spaces for them to work.
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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has created a Candidature Unit to ensure that more Ghanaians are appointed to regional bodies such as ECOWAS and African Union (AU).
The Minister-designate for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, who disclosed this last Thursday, said the unit would scan all international agencies to find out the positions available and who the country could put forward for those vacancies.
“Ghana spends a lot of money on ECOWAS, AU and all the international organisations that we belong to and yet we do not have many people serving with those organisations. One of the reasons, I found out, is that Ghanaians don’t have a second language so they do apply and when it comes to the shortlisting, they are left out.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration has created a Candidature Unit to ensure that more Ghanaians are appointed to regional bodies such as the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU).