Prosper Bani - Chief of Staff
Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
IMANI Ghana, a policy
analysis think tank has released a list of some public personalities and
institutions which it says performed worse in 2014.
Leading the pack of
the ‘least inspirational’ public institutions is the Office of the Chief of
Staff at the Presidency which IMANI says “this office has been reputably
ineffective and profusely wasteful,” in the last two years.
A long release explaining
the performances of such institutions was contained in a statement issued in
Accra and signed by IMANI’s President, Franklyn Cudjoe.
Worst Performers
Apart from the office
of the Chief of Staff, IMANI also ranked the Controller and Accountant
General’s Department (CAGD), National Service Secretariat and the Commission on
Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) as some of the institutions
that performed poorly.
Others include office
of the Auditor General, Bank of Ghana (BoG), Ministry of Youth and Sports (MoYS)
as well as National Pensions Regulatory Authority (NPRA) and the Social
Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).
Inspirational leadership
In spite of the poor
performance, the policy think tank said other state institutions performed
quiet well and provided inspiration for the country and therefore deserved
commendation.
They include National
Health Insurance Authority (NHIA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Ghana
Shippers Authority (GSA), Registrar General’s Department as well as Ghana Stock
Exchange who IMANI described them as “leading lights for 2014.”
Franklyn Cudjoe - IMANI Ghana President
Bypassing Parliament
Explaining the reason
behind the Chief of Staff’s poor performance, IMANI Ghana said “the Chief of
Staff seems to have turned the Presidency into a hub for negotiating deals that
never get passed in parliament or when they are sent to parliament, they are
passed at the frightening speed of light.”
“Out of 23 oil
contracts, only 7 have been published by the government. As Parliament has
become politically unaccountable to Ghanaians on value for money projects introduced
by the Executive, the Chief of Staff should be filling the gap.”
IMANI said in order
to ‘redeem’ the image of the Chief Of Staff’s Office, “it must assemble all
experts to advice the governments on all its projects to properly evaluate
them.”
Special Mentions
The think tank also said
the Ministry of Communications under the leadership of Dr Edward Omane Boamah
had “effectively neutralized the damaging effect of many government’s untrained
communicators,” adding “the ministry deserves commendation for increasing
access to broad band services although at very expensive rates.”
It said Fair Wages
and Salaries Commission (FWSC) also deserved commendation “for clearly
maintaining a credible database of all Ghanaian workers, quite different from
the padded numbers the CAGD flaunts with greater dissipation of public funds.”
“The FWSC should be
allowed to properly evaluate all public jobs in Ghana and ideally be the one
that telling us who to recruit and how many for each government department,
agency and ministry,” it said.
IMANI further
commended the Ministry of Local Government (MLGRD) for the institution of the
National Sanitation Day saying “the new Minister seemed to have found favour
with many well meaning Ghanaians in his bid to clean the country of filth.”
It also commended the
Ministries of Trade and Foreign Affairs for dealing with the most important
trade matter for the sub region, Economic Partnership Agreements saying “as the EPAs will be signed, it is important
for the current trade Minister Dr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah to begin plans for
national conversations on how Ghanaians can take advantage of the opportunities
in the agreement.”
“We at IMANI will be
helping the government to effectively mobilise revenues for development through
our work with DANIDA. We shall use our access to the international diplomatic
community and beyond to encourage investments into Ghana.”
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