The flag bearer of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom, has said he will work with a lean administration of 40 ministers if elected president in the 7 December polls.
“I will put in place an all-inclusive, lean administration of not more than 40 ministers of state for accelerated development and reform the public sector to become responsive to the private, productive sector,” Dr Nduom posted on Facebook and reiterated at a presidential debate organised by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) in Accra on Tuesday 22 November.
Explaining his rationale behind a lean government on Ghana Yensom on Accra100.5FM on Wednesday 23 November, Dr Nduom said a lean government would cut costs while utilising the expertise of civil servants.
According to the business mogul, civil servants should be allowed to do most of the technical work whilst the politicians provide direction.
He said that was the practice in advanced democracies like the USA and UK where the state is run effectively even without the involvement of the president and his vice because civil servants are allowed to run major government institutions.
Dr Nduom further noted that under his presidency, the Ghanaian economy would be managed on a bed of fundamental reforms to make the country great and strong and its entire people prosperous, using the principle of Ghana First.
He promised to provide strategic interventions to support agriculture so that Ghanaians can feed themselves.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
