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Akufo-Addo “breached law” in creating new ministries – NDC MP

Speaking on the floor of Parliament Friday, the Keta MP noted that the president should have created the new ministries through an Executive Instrument.

The president has separated Aviation Ministry and Railway Ministry from the Roads, Transport and Highway Ministry. He also created the Sanitation and Water Resources from the Ministry of Works, Housing and Water Resources.

“It appears to me that because the President was in so much of a hurry he breached the rules, the laws of our countries in appointing ministers of state and especially the creation of ministries and realignment of ministries,” Mr Quashigah said in parliament, quoting the Civil Service amendments act (2001).

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According to him, the act mandates the president to create a new ministry or designate a ministry through an Executive Instrument “published in a gazette.”

But the Majority leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, pushed back against the criticism, insisting that there is an official publication to effect the creation and realignment of the said ministry.

According to him, the onus is on the minority side of the house to trace and track the publication.

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