Bring Value To Our Governance System – Akufo Addo Charges Newly Sworn-In Ministers

President Akufo Addo has tasked his newly outdoored Ministers to make it a priority to add more value to the country’s system of governance. He said this is the only way the renewed four 4 year mandate given party New Patriotic Party NPP administration by Ghanaians can well be expressed. Akufo Addo gave the admonishment

during the swearing in ceremony of the ministers at the Jubilee House on Friday evening. I am assured that the various background of each one of you will bring value to the governance of our country and also enable us to deliver the commitments of our manifesto the secret compact that ties us the New Patriotic Party NPP to the

Ghanaian people, the President said. While touting his first term successes in the areas of health, education, infrastructure, accountability and also industrialization, President Akufo Addo assured that his government is in the process of putting this nation also onto the path of sustainable progress and prosperity  in the next term.

President Nana Akufo Addo, therefore, encouraged the appointees to ensure continuous transformational leadership aimed at improving the socio economic life of the ordinary citizen. I urge you to provide leadership that will ensure that work that we do, also benefits the progress of our nation and help raise the living standard

of our people. That is why we are here and that is why the Ghanaian people voted for us. Communication and Digitalization Minister, Ursula Owusu Ekuful in a remark on behalf of the freshly sworn-in Minister was grateful to the President for the honour done them and She also expressed the commitment of colleagues to delivering on their mandate adding that they will work to justify our inclusion. In all 28 out of 30 Ministers of State were

sworn into office. The two sectoral ministers who could not be sworn into office are the the Minister designate for Finance, Ken Ofori Atta and the Minister designate for the Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Ebenezer Kojo Kum. Ofori Atta is yet to attend upon the Appointments Committee to be vetted due to complications from the COVID-19 while Ebenezer Kojo Kum was also unable to attend the swearing-in ceremony due to ill health.