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President Mills
cuts down, re-aligns ministries
Accra, Jan. 22, Ghanadot/GNA - President John
Evans Atta Mills, through an Executive Instrument has
realigned some Ministries and cut down the present number of
Ministries from 27 to 23.
The 23 Ministries which now constitute the Civil Service
are: Ministries of Finance; Foreign Affairs; Defence;
Interior; Trade and Industry; Justice and Attorney General's
Department; Roads and Highways; Food and Agriculture; Lands
and Natural Resources; Local Government and Rural
Development; Energy; Health; and Education.
The rest are the Ministries of Employment and Social
Welfare; Communications; Information; Tourism; Transport;
Water Resources, Works and Housing; Youth and Sports;
Environment, Science and Technology, Women and Children's
Affair's and Chieftaincy and Culture.
Presidential Spokesperson Mr Mahama Ayariga told a press
briefing at the Castle, Osu, in Accra that the Ministries of
National Security, Presidential Affairs, Parliamentary
Affairs, Fisheries and Public Sector Reform have been
dropped.
Under the new arrangement the Railways, Ports and Harbours
and Aviation now come under one Ministry, the Ministry of
Transport.
Mr Ayariga explained that the move was to save cost and make
effective use of the human resources available.
On the dropping of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs,
the Presidential Spokesperson said Parliament was an
autonomous arm of Government which would consider its own
staffing needs.
He said the Civil Service would find ways to realign and
Chief Directors, Directors, Staff of other workers into
other Ministries.
On the separation of the Ministry of Justice and Attorney
General's Department into two different bodies, Mr Ayariga
said the two bodies, presently joined into one, have been
entrenched in the Constitution, and the issue would have to
be put to Ghanaians under a constitutional review.
The Presidential Special Initiative under the previous
regime, he said, were in a sense projects, and would also be
reviewed for the Government to know which ones needed to be
projected.
Meanwhile, the President has nominated Mr Kofi Opoku-Manu, a
former Chief Director at the Ministry of Finance for the
position of Ashanti Regional Minister.
GNA
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