President faulted for asking ministers to act

This, Dr Whyte maintained, was worrying given that the President had almost a month to select his team of ministers.

“Unlike President Kufuor and President Mills who had one week to form their cabinet, the current President has at least one month to have reflected on who out of the 24 million Ghanaians he wants to choose to form his cabinet and also to appoint as ministers at various levels.

“If for nothing at all, one would have expected that some of these early appointments will involve some pronouncements around ministerial issues,” Dr Whyte said.

He was quick to add though that the delay in announcing the ministerial positions could mean the President was doing a “more thorough job.”

“The problem with this is that the President is actually closing down on himself a window of opportunity to clearly define himself different from the era of President Mills. It would have been better for him to go ahead and make his appointment as he so wish than to have allowed those people to go back into office, especially if he wants to change them and appoint new people in their positions," he said.

A senior law lecturer at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, in part, agreed with the concerns of Dr Whyte.

Mr Ernest Kofi Abotsi was convinced that chief directors at the various ministries ought to have acted in the absence of the substantive ministers rather than asking outgoing ministers to hang on.

Source: Joy FM