Sideline Osafo-Maafo in your next govt - Ghanaians to Akufo-Addo A day after the Electoral Commission of Ghana led by Jean Mensa made the official declaration of the presidential results, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo appointed his Transition Team, in accordance with the Presidential (Transition) Act, 2012, Act (845). Per the laws the incumbent president is allowed to appoint amongst others, the head of presidential staff, Attorney-General, Ministers of Presidential Affairs, Finance, Interior, Defence, Foreign Affairs. However, some Ghanaians appeared unhappy when they sighted the name of the Senior Minister Yaw Osafo-Maafo as a member of the Transition Team. According to them, some of his acts during Akufo-Addo’s first term as president contributed to the ruling government’s struggle to retain power.
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File photo: NDM leader Lam Akol
The leader of the National Democratic Movement (NDM), Lam Akol, in a missive yesterday said President Salva Kiir has no power to appoint states’ governments.
Lam said that of the numerous powers of the President under Article 10, none is the appointment of state governments.
“First, is it within the powers of the President of the Republic to appoint sub-national Governments? Second, regardless of who has the power to appoint State-level Governments, what is the justification for denying one State its right to get its government like the rest of the states? In my humble opinion, the President of the Republic has no power to appoint the States’ Governments. Of the numerous powers of the President under Article 101(they are 20) none is the appointment of State Governments,” Lam wrote.
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Matanda-Moyo - ZACC
POLITICAL pressure to remove the chairperson of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) the independent constitutional body created to combat corruption and crime – Loyce Matanda-Moyo (pictured) is mounting, as ruling party bigwigs feel the heat of intensifying scrutiny over their corrupt activities.
Since coming into office in March last year, Matanda-Moyo (whose name on Zacc social media accounts is spelt Loyce and not Loice), has been slowly, but steadily turning on the heat under senior officials’ chairs.
This is despite widespread criticism of Zacc and her team that they are not yet ready to deal with the big fish in Zanu PF and President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s inner circle in and out of government. There have also been protests that Zacc is being used as an attack dog to settle personal vendettas and political scores.