Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has criticized his colleagues for justifying the number of government appointees by approving six Ministerial nominees.
The remark comes after the Presidency released a report on the number of employees in the White House.
The workforce has grown from 934 in 2020 to 995 in 2021 and 1048 this year.
The North Tongu legislature believes that rejecting the new nominations would have sent a strong message to the government about the magnitude of the protest.
“I am sure that if last Friday, March 24, all 136 of us had voted rejecting those new 8 appointees, I don’t think President Nana Addo would have had the courage to do this. In the sense, I’m forced to blame some of my colleagues, the traitors among us who have brought us here”.
“Because we are basically emboldening this President, telling him that he can do his worst because allies within the opposition will continue to cheer you on in secret. We will continue to endorse your callous policies. And I am deeply pained, so horrified and hurt by the treachery of some of our colleagues.”
According to a document provided to Parliament by the President’s Office, the Presidency employs 1048 people in various administrative and domestic tasks.
The report submitted to Parliament is in accordance with section 11 of the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463).
The report covers three major areas: the number of Presidential Staff employed at the President’s Office throughout the time, their levels and grades, and personnel of other Public Services allocated to the President’s Office.
The report revealed that there were two (2) Ministers of State and forty-four (44) Senior Presidential Staffers on the job throughout the reporting period. Three hundred and fifteen other political appointees served in the President’s Office (315).
