Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Buem Constituency, Daniel Kwesi Ashiamah, says President Akufo-Addo’s last-minute reshuffle of some ministerial appointees is incapable of tackling the country’s woes.
He believes the decision will bring no impact to the already ailing Ghanaian economy.
“How many times did we ask the president to do the reshuffling? When Ghanaians have been calling for it since last year, but he refused to listen with his defense that his ministers are competent. Did Nana Addo not say they were competent?
“I want to ask the NPP who said they have the men, what is going to be the economic impact of this reshuffle decision since it will bear no good fruit,” Mr. Asiamah said on the Angel Morning Show on Thursday, February 15, 2024.
The former MP questioned why the ruling party would reshuffle in an election despite criticizing John Mahama under the erstwhile NDC administration for taking such a step.
“I remember very well, in 2016, I think it was around sometime in February or January when Mahama did reshuffling, what did Dr. Bawumia say? He called the move of Mahama’s reshuffling as ‘an election reshuffle’.”
Emphasising the insignificant contributions of the reshuffle, the former MP said, “Since nothing is going to come out from this reshuffling, they should just relax, nothing is going to happen.”
He described it as “Eagle and its children,” the President’s refusal to investigate the taxpayer’s money misused by some of the reshuffled appointees such as former Health Minister; Kwaku Agyemang Manu and Finance Minister; Ken Ofori Atta but to oust them from their posts.
According to him, “the government is blind, hence cannot see” and added, the motive behind the reshuffling is to gain more advantage for Bawumia in the 2024 presidential election.
“What the President is doing, is just like wiping the dirt on the driver’s windscreen for Bawumia.”
