I Have Kept Quite Out Of Respect, If Not So I Would Have Taken Many On: Oliver Barker-Vormawor

I note also that the said Abronye DC has on several occasions claimed in the past that I was being paid 20,000 Ghanaian cedis a month as an advisor to John Mahama. All of which are false and can easily be demonstrated to be so.

I have ignored all these allegations for the same reason one does not interrogate why a fly is drawn to excrement. A person who lives in the gutters craves companionship and | have little appetite for the gutter politics the 4th Republic has normalized.

I have also kept quiet out of respect for the Ghana Civil Service, of which I hold the immense pride of having served. As civil servants, we are sworn to oaths of secrecy, discretion, and non-partisanship. 

In the interest of setting the record straight, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs like many other ministries has the practice of designating a civil servant, in

its case, a foreign service officer, to be stationed at the Presidency to provide liaison between the Ministry and the Presidency.

Sometime in April 2013, I was seconded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to serve as such liaison officer. My Secondment Letter was issued to me and signed by the current secretary to the cabinet of President Nana Akufo-Addo. At the time, she was the Director of Administration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Consistent with the practice of the Civil Service, I remained at all times a staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this role, I discharged my duties to the institution of the Civil Service and was subject at all times to the direction of the Civil Service, even at the Presidency. Also, I was at all times on my civil service pay, earning between 800 cedis to 1000 cedis net monthly.

About two years later, I resigned from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to join the United Nations.

I consider myself bound today still by the etiquettes of my training as a diplomat for the Republic of Ghana, It is an honor in the highest esteem.

As progressively rabid partisanship and the absence of repercussions have made politicians untouchable, the civil service continues to suffer the onslaught of political manipulation of a kind, lacking any morals or any restraint.

If we do not watch the levels to which some are prepared to drag civil service in or to their corrupt way, we will wake up to a country not worth fighting for.

It isis hoped the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will take the extraordinary step of issuing a statement that clarifies as well as confirm my status as a foreign service officer during the period of my secondment to the office of the President.

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