Government says that the effective date for ministers affected by the recent reshuffle to assume their new positions is today, January 21. This is contained in a statement issued in Accra on Wednesday and signed by Deputy Minister for Information, James Agyenim Boateng.
According to the statement, this is to give the outgoing Ministers adequate time to prepare and hand over to the incoming ones. Mr. Agyenim-Boateng explained that the change over date was communicated to the affected Ministers by the President, John Evans Atta Mills, on January 7, 2011