{"id":375840,"date":"2017-11-21T05:15:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T05:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=375840"},"modified":"2017-11-21T08:13:23","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T08:13:23","slug":"minority-demands-full-list-of-presidential-staffers-from-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/minority-demands-full-list-of-presidential-staffers-from-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority demands full list of presidential staffers from gov&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament wants government to furnish them with the full list of active presidential staffers.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, the government had delayed in presenting the list as required by the Presidential Office Act although they have spent 10 months in office already.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;slypdGQajIlgnait3p3InvRVMSazHLDB&#8221;]A presidential staffer under the Mahama administration and Member of Parliament for Builsa\u00a0South, Clement Apaak, in an interview on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>said that although government cannot be accused of breaching the law, it will be in the best interest of the presidency and parliament to have the list in order to guarantee transparency and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a requirement per the Presidential Office Act 1993, that the office of the president should furnish parliament with the full list of persons working at the presidency and that includes presidential staffers\u2026. We are not saying that government has breached the law\u2026. But we believe that at this time the government has settled in and all the staff that the presidency needs to be able to function to its optimum is in place, and therefore the time has come for us to know who they are and what positions they occupy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Clement Apaak, who has filed a question in parliament directed at the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Majority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu on the matter, added that making public the list will help stop the activities of unscrupulous persons who impersonate presidential staffers to defraud unsuspecting Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFull complement to allow us to assess matters to do with expenditure as far as the presidency is concerned, and matters of accountability and transparency\u2026 It is in the interest of the Presidency to make this list available to ensure that people do not use the name of the office of the presidency to engage in acts of fraud and acts that are untoward,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>About 10 months into his governance, President Akufo-Addo has only presented the list of his <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/04\/full-list-of-nana-addos-administrative-staff\/\"><strong>key his administrative staffers<\/strong><\/a><\/span> at the Flagstaff House.<\/p>\n<p>The staff are\u00a0Frema Osei-Opare as his Chief of Staff, Nana Bediatuo Asante as his Executive Secretary and Eugene Arhin as Director of Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Others are;<\/p>\n<p>Brigadier General Emmanuel Okyere \u2013 National Security Advisor<\/p>\n<p>Lord Commey \u2013 Director of Operations at the presidency<\/p>\n<p>Frema Osei-Opare \u2013 Chief of Staff<\/p>\n<p>Francis Asenso Boakye \u2013 1st Deputy Chief of Staff<\/p>\n<p>Abu Jinapor- 2nd Deputy Chief of Staff<\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Hassan Ahmed \u2013 Director of State Protocol<\/p>\n<p>Saratu Atta \u2013 Special Assistant to the president<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Kyeremeh \u2013 National Security Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>Kan Dapaah \u2013 Minister Designate for National Security<\/p>\n<p>Victor Newman \u2013 Director of Research<\/p>\n<p>Clara Napaga Sulemana Tia \u2013 Presidential Staffer<\/p>\n<p><strong>692 employees at Office of the President<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 2015, it was revealed that the Mahama government had 692 employees at the presidency as of December 2014.<\/p>\n<p>They included 24 presidential staffers, and 43 caterers, 36 stewards, 54 drivers,14 night-watchmen, 2 caretakers, 22 sanitary labourers, 3 other labourers, and 85 cleaners as Household staff at the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament wants government to furnish them with the full list of active presidential staffers. 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