{"id":1090723,"date":"2022-05-17T20:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/politicians-are-over-politicising-public-service-kwabena-agyepong\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T20:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T20:03:18","slug":"politicians-are-over-politicising-public-service-kwabena-agyepong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/politicians-are-over-politicising-public-service-kwabena-agyepong\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians are over politicising public service \u2013 Kwabena Agyepong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/maxresdefault-28-1024x576.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"XyBgucFp2Lw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Politicians are over politicising public service - Former NPP General Secretary\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XyBgucFp2Lw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has bemoaned the rate at which politicians have been appointed to positions in the public service.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on\u00a0<strong>Asempa FM\u00a0<\/strong>on Tuesday, Ing. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong stated that \u201cpoliticians have over politicised the public service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, public portfolios, he believes, should be staffed by people with technical background.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are over politicising the public service and it didn\u2019t start now. Health Insurance, NADMO such major technical institutions \u2026 are solid places you fill it with technical minds,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>This, he explained is because those people have the technical know-how and are capable of \u201cmanaging and predicting major infractions in society so that they can mitigate these impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they are given to people because of their party affiliation. There are competent people who could have sympathies to the party who could fill that job,\u201d he suggested.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Agyapong added that there are a lot of things that happen in the party that he does not agree with and urged the party executive \u201cto stand up and be counted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat is why by convention party Chairman, party General Secretary are in Cabinet, so if government is undertaking a task that would not inure to the benefit of the party, and the country first, then they can intervene,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"XyBgucFp2Lw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Politicians are over politicising public service - Former NPP General Secretary\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XyBgucFp2Lw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"yaitQHjHKvs\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Coverage Of Denkyirahene Funeral Rites - Adom TV News (17-5-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yaitQHjHKvs?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has bemoaned the rate at which politicians have been appointed to positions in the public service. Speaking in an interview on\u00a0Asempa FM\u00a0on Tuesday, Ing. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong stated that \u201cpoliticians have over politicised the public service.\u201d According to him, public portfolios, he believes, should be staffed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[13394,228,4330,3318,2154,185],"class_list":["post-1090723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-agyepong","tag-kwabena","tag-politicians","tag-politicising","tag-public","tag-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}