Ghana President John Mahama has reduced the country’s ministries from 30 to 23 in a bid to cut government spending.
Mahama’s decision – an executive order – to trim the number
of government ministries was contained in a gazette dated January 9 – two days
after he took office.
The West African country would no longer have the ministries
of information, sanitation and water resources, national security, railway
development, parliamentary affairs, public enterprises, and chieftaincy and
religious affairs.
The scrapped ministries were in place under Nana Akufo-Addo,
immediate-past president of Ghana.
The order established the ministries of finance, health,
interior, defence, education, energy and green transition, roads and highways,
transport, sports and recreation, justice, lands and natural resources, and
local government and chieftaincy and affairs.
Others are foreign affairs, communication, digital
technology, environment, science and technology, youth development and
empowerment, works, housing and water resources, gender, children and social
protection, tourism, culture and creative arts, labour, jobs and employment,
food and agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, and trade, agribusiness and
industry.
Mahama, who was first in Ghana’s Jubilee House between 2012
and 2017, returned to power after defeating former Vice-President Mahamudu
Bawumia.
The president polled 6,328,397 votes, representing 56.55
percent of the vote cast, while Bawumia gathered 4,657,304 votes with 41.6
percent.
Bawumia conceded defeat before the official results were
announced.
Mahama’s cost-cutting move is in contrast to that of
President Bola Tinubu, his Nigerian counterpart, who increased ministries to 48
in 2023 from 44 under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
Tinubu’s decision has faced widespread criticism as Nigeria
struggles with a deepening cost-of-living crisis.
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