'Reduce Size Of Your Government' - Occupyghana Mounts Pressure On Akufo-Addo | Politics

OccupyGhana, a strain group in Ghana, is mounting strain on President Akufo-Addo to right away cut back the scale of his government.

In an announcement dated Tuesday, October 25, the group stated the present financial difficulties the nation faces don't assist the big dimension of the government.

According to the group, the laborious occasions Ghanaians are going by means of are sufficient proof that “there is no better time than now to reduce the size of government.”

“This is therefore a demand for an immediate and drastic reduction in size, not limited to ministers alone, but all of the President's non-ministerial appointees. If for nothing at all, the symbolism in the Government also taking a hit, just like the rest of us, is very strong,” an excerpt of the assertion learn.

Read full assertion beneath:

MR PRESIDENT, IT IS TIME FOR A 'LEAN AND MEAN' GOVERNMENT

There isn't any time higher than now, to scale back the scale of the Government.

Times are laborious. Things are laborious. Very laborious. Every Ghanaian is feeling the pinch and ache. To survive, residents are pressured to chop again on some important issues in life. The Government, which is essentially in charge for the financial mess, should additionally in the reduction of and extra.

When in early 2017, the sheer dimension of the Government was revealed, we weren't satisfied that that was what Ghana required. In our press assertion dated March 17, 2017, we criticized the President for that, stating that whereas 'a government paperwork should be sufficiently big to realize the goals of the government,' it should be 'lean sufficient to not waste the sources of the state.'

We additionally identified that the 'appreciable sum of money in salaries, allowances and advantages… (along with having fun with a spread of ex-gratia advantages once they go away workplace) doesn't sound to us like a diligent try to guard the general public purse. '

However, in considered one of a number of responses to this criticism and others like ours, the President stated to some new ministers that 'as you realize there are some who say my government is simply too massive and there are too lots of you. I'm a agency believer within the adage that the proof of the pudding is within the consuming.' Another time, the President known as the scale of his Government a 'vital funding' and warranted Ghanaians that 'it isn't going to be a vacation' for the ministers.

Time has examined each 'the funding' and 'the pudding,' they usually haven't aged nicely and have been discovered wanting. The mixed return, two years to the tip of the President's second time period, is that this debilitating financial disaster. Unless the President's new and unacceptable argument could be that we'd be in a a lot worse state of affairs however for his nonetheless giant coterie of ministers, it's time to get 'lean and imply'. If as residents, we're compelled to chop down on our non-public bills, then it's time for the Government to do the identical to guard the general public purse.

This is subsequently a requirement for a right away and drastic discount in dimension, not restricted to ministers alone, however all the President's non-ministerial appointees. If for nothing in any respect, the symbolism within the Government additionally taking a success, similar to the remainder of us, may be very robust.

These aren't regular occasions and 'enterprise as normal' will not lower it. The excuses for having and paying a big batch of ministers and different appointees to provide the outcomes we see now, to the extent that they've ever been justified (which we deny), put on perilously skinny in these occasions.