{"id":1170975,"date":"2022-08-08T22:43:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/any-government-that-finds-it-distasteful-to-reshuffle-ministers-has-many-secrets-dr-amoako-baah\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T22:43:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:43:17","slug":"any-government-that-finds-it-distasteful-to-reshuffle-ministers-has-many-secrets-dr-amoako-baah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/any-government-that-finds-it-distasteful-to-reshuffle-ministers-has-many-secrets-dr-amoako-baah\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Any government that finds it distasteful to reshuffle ministers has many secrets&#8217; \u2013 Dr Amoako Baah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"'Any government that finds it distasteful to reshuffle ministers has many secrets' \u2013 Dr Amoako Baah\" title=\"'Any government that finds it distasteful to reshuffle ministers has many secrets' \u2013 Dr Amoako Baah\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>Political Science Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has asserted that any government that finds it distasteful to reshuffle Ministers has many secrets. <\/p>\n<p>This, Dr. Richard Amoako Baah said, has contributed to President Akufo-Addo\u2019s hesitation to reshuffle the current crop of ministers in his administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny government that finds it distasteful to reshuffle ministers has too many secrets and this is why they don\u2019t want new eyes and new ears because the same ones who are there play the game and let\u2019s keep it going, that is part of the equation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Amoako Baah\u2019s remark comes in response to President Akufo-Addo\u2019s refusal to reshuffle his Ministers.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>According to the President, there is no justification for the demand since most of the ministers have met his expectations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on North Star Radio in Tamale as part of his two-day tour of the Northern Region, the President said he is impressed with his appointees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of them for me have done outstanding work. Their output has been considerable, and that is what I look at,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1320225715&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on <strong>Joy FM\u2019s Top Story <\/strong>on Monday, Dr Amoako Baah questioned how President Akufo-Addo would heed calls to reshuffle when he never provided the resources for his ministers to work with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow are you going to do that? \u2026Talk to Parliamentarians, they will tell you Common Fund never go there. How are they going to be assessed? You were never given the money you needed to work so based on what are you going to decide competence to ensure that you fire them,\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to President Akufo-Addo\u2019s claim that those calling for a reshuffle are looking for work in his administration, Dr. Amoako Baah stated that such  are not prudent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it is a political party that brought him to power doesn\u2019t mean that when you win, you will do whatever that you want.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have to say .. I don\u2019t want a position with him, it is already gone, so please what I am saying has nothing to do with myself. I don\u2019t need a job with the President but if he calls me that he needs help and he thinks that I can help, that I will do,\u201d he told Evans Mensah.<\/p>\n<p>He added that it is up to the President to reshuffle or not. However, the government ought to change the state of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Science Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has asserted that any government that finds it distasteful to reshuffle Ministers has many secrets. This, Dr. Richard Amoako Baah said, has contributed to President Akufo-Addo\u2019s hesitation to reshuffle the current crop of ministers in his administration. \u201cAny government that finds it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[9836,10183,3504,176,1090,1477,3526,7537],"class_list":["post-1170975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-amoako","tag-baah","tag-distasteful","tag-finds","tag-government","tag-ministers","tag-reshuffle","tag-secrets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170975","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=1170975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}