NPP cautions Akufo-Addo’s appointees to be wary of opposition elements in the system

The Acting Communication Director of the ruling New Patriotic Party Yaw Adomako Baafi has cautioned government appointees to be extra careful in their dealings with civil servants, especially chief directors of their respect Ministries.

Mr Adomako Baafi wants the appointees to be mindful of the opposition elements who are still holding some key positions in the Ministries, Department and Agencies and thread cautiously, warning that these elements are deliberately setting up traps for them, to fall into it, and then release the information for the media to use it against them.

Speaking on Oman FM's political analysis programme Boiling Point he charged the appointees to spend time to scrutinize every document that is handed over to them to ensure that there is no room for any shady transaction which could be used as a corruption tag on them.

“I want to tell our people to be extra careful and also open their eyes when documents are handed over to them," he advised.

Adomako Baafi who cited the recent brouhaha over the Budget of the Ministry of Special Development headed by Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson and the controversial $100,000 which was allegedly demanded from expatriates, who sat with the President at the Ghana Expatriates Business Awards, argued that the unfortunate incidents were part of the plots of the opposition NDC elements to discredit the governing party.

In the case of the Ministry of Special Development which emerged that an amount of GHC 800,000 had been budgeted for the development of a website for that Ministry, Yaw Adomako Baafi said he and other members of the NPP communication team met with the Chief Director of the Ministry at the Castle prior to the Budget presentation in Parliament and demanded to know the details of their the Budget but he blatantly refused.

“We kept asking the Chief Director to let us have the details of their budget but this man refused and gave flimsy excuses,” he noted.

He said he was not surprised that the same Budget which they requested to know its content but were refused later became an issue in the media for discussions.

Story By: Michael Creg Afful

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