Legal luminary, Lawyer Yaw Boafo is raising arguments against the appointment of out and out politicians to head some state institutions in the country.
The institutions he refers to include the Youth Enterprise Agency (YEA), National Health Insurance Authority (NHIS), National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), National Service Secretariat (NSS), Ghana National Petroleum Company (GNPC) and the Ghana National Gas Company (GNGC).
According to the former Ashanti Region President of the Ghana Bar Association, these institutions have been turned into political vehicles although their “mandates are enshrined in the constitution to achieve a particular purpose”.
Speaking on the Ultimate Breakfast Show with Lantam Papanko, Lawyer Boafo raised concern with the President’s appointees mounting political party platforms especially in meetings of the Tertiary Students Confederacy of the NPP and promising those choice placements in National Service and jobs under the YEA.
He also pointed to what he called the attitude of entitlement growing among party foot soldiers who think such appointees should offer them jobs in the public sector or see their wrath as witnessed in the recent chasing out of the President’s appointees and locking down of public offices.
“These are clear evidence for those of us who believe that certain technocratic positions should be left to technocrats and not overtly partisan individuals.
‘We have overtly politicized certain institutions like NADMO, YEA, School Feeding, MASLOC, and all and it is really really affecting us. If you are appointed to those institutions, you cease to be a politician when you take over the position because the objectives of the NSS, MASLOC and the rest, are enshrined in the statute and it is to achieve a particular purpose. So for me, when those institutions like GNPC, TOR, Ghana Gas, YEA that were set up to sort things out are handled by known partisan politicians, that’s where the problem starts,” he said.
He suggested that positions to be handled by overtly known political participants and technocrats should be differentiated.
‘People who were mounting political platforms running here and there on the grounds are the ones who are taken there and if you take them there I will go and demand that you should remember me because we were in the trenches together. We should be able to know which positions should be handled by overtly known political participants and those ones that should be handled by technocrats.
“The national service has for years been handled by political activists but then if you hear of a name, you don’t know the person, he is a home-grown thorough bread civil servant how do you go asking him for partisan favors,” he explained.
Meanwhile the former District Chief Executive Officer of Upper Denkyira West Ambrose Amoatia who was also on the programme pointed out that until the Constitution was amended to limit the powers of the President in making almost all appointments of institutional heads, the status quo will remain under successive governments.
By: Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM/Ivan Heathcote- Fumador
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Legal luminary, Lawyer Yaw Boafo is raising arguments against the appointment of out and out politicians to head some state institutions in the country. The institutions he refers to include the Youth Enterprise Agency (YEA), National Health Insurance Authority (NHIS), National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Microfinance and Small Loans Centre (MASLOC), National Service Secretariat (NSS), […]
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