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As the government struggles to manage the economic crisis, former President John Mahama has urged the Akufo-Addo government to do away with the redundancies that have marked this administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are too many agencies created overnight without any functional necessity that must be scrapped or merged for efficiency to ensure savings to the public purse,\u201d Mr. Mahama said during his address on the economy on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n
As an example, he said the Free SHS secretariat needn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ghana Education Service has adequate capacity to handle the implementation of the policy without the wasteful existence of another secretariat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Mahama also said the One-District-One-Factory secretariat was doing work the Ministry of Trade and Industry could do.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe so-called Special Development Initiative Secretariat and the accompanying Development Authorities must be scrapped, and their supposed functions sent back to the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies whose work they have usurped for sloganeering purposes,\u201d the former President also said.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mahama has already said the spending cuts should begin at the Presidency as Ghana seeks economic support from the IMF.<\/p>\n
He noted that \u201cthe budget of the office of government machinery has ballooned over the last six years from a little over GH\u00a2700 million to GH\u00a23.1 billion in 2022.<\/p>\n
\u201cSubstantial savings of GH\u00a21 billion or more can be made by slashing the budget of the Office of Government Machinery,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n