The Minister for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has dismissed claims by the Member of Parliament for Damongo, Samuel Abu Jinapor, that President John Dramani Mahama has appointed 100 presidential staffers.
Addressing a press conference on Friday, March 7, 2025, he clarified that the president has appointed only 30 presidential staffers.
“Everybody who has been appointed as a presidential staffer has been named in a statement signed by me. So, currently, there are 27 presidential staffers. All of them were publicly announced, unlike in the past when we only learned of them when the president submitted a list of presidential staff to Parliament. This time, we went ahead to inform the people of Ghana and left nobody in doubt about the numbers.
“In addition to these 27, three people have been appointed to assist with specific interventions that the president wants to undertake. They are referred to as directors. They do not hold the rank of presidential staffers, so they are described as presidential aides,” he noted.
He continued, “If you add them to the list of staffers, there are just 30 people. Beyond that, no other staffers or presidential aides have been appointed.”
On Wednesday, March 6, 2025, Samuel Abu Jinapor accused President Mahama of failing to uphold his pledge to maintain a lean government, alleging that he had exceeded his promise of appointing only 60 ministers and had instead appointed over 100 staffers at the Presidency.
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