Franklin Kadjo, Chairman of IMANI Africa
IMANI Africa chairman Franklin Cudjoe welcomed the party’s decision to reduce the number of ministers after the 2024 elections.
He believes that over the years, bloated ministries and agencies have never brought any benefit to Ghanaians other than wasteful spending.
Comparing Ghana to other countries he has had the privilege of visiting, he said, “The integrated sector in both countries is a testament to increased worker productivity and reduced burden on taxpayers from passive-aggressive bureaucracies.”
To Franklin Cadojo: “We need to stop the practice of fragmenting ministries into ridiculous agencies, extracting unnecessary public funds and giving absolutely no value back.”
Read his post below:
It is yet another great piece of news that the two main candidates in this election, the NDC and Bawumia, are promising to scale back what is apparently the largest, most uncontrollable and wasteful government in Ghana’s history.
Hopefully, there will be a restructuring of ministries, with some departments separated and related departments merged. I learned in my travels that the much wealthier Australia is doing the obvious things to cut costs. It merged its ministries of agriculture, forestry and fisheries into one ministry (see photo taken in 2015), and merged its departments of foreign affairs and trade into a new ministry called DFAT.
I found the same thing when I visited the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the Department for Energy and Climate Change in the UK.
From my interactions with the heads of the merged departments in both countries, it was clear that employees were more productive and taxpayers were less burdened by passive-aggressive bureaucracy.
We need to stop the practice of fragmenting ministries into ridiculous agencies, extracting unnecessary public funds and giving nothing of value back.
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