President to work with 23 ministries …reduces number from 30

President John Dra­mani Mahama has, by an Executive Instrument (EI) – Civil Service (Ministries) Instrument, 2025, established 23 ministries to run his admin­istration.

By this Instrument, the President has reduced the ministries from 30 and revoked the Civil Service (Ministries) Instrument, 2021 (E.I. 12).

The ministries that have been chopped off or realigned by this EI are Information, Railway Development, San­itation, National Security, Chieftaincy and Culture, Public Enterprises and Parliamentary Affairs.

Gazetted on January 9, 2025, the establishment of the min­istries were pursuant to Section 11(3) of the Civil Service Act, 1993 (P.N.D.C. 327).

Signed by the President himself, the ministries named in the Gazette notification are Finance, Health, Interior, De­fence, Education, Energy and Green Transition, Roads and Highways and Transport.

Others are Sports and Recreation, Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Justice, Lands and Natural Resources, Local Government, Chieftaincy and Religious Af­fairs, Foreign Affairs, Commu­nication, Digital Technology and Innovation, and Environ­ment, Science and Technology.

The rest are Youth Devel­opment and Empowerment, Works, Housing and Water Resources, Gender, Children and Social Protection, Tour­ism, Culture and Creative Arts, Labour, Jobs and Employment, Food and Agriculture, Fisheries and Aquaculture and Trade, Agribusiness and Industry.

The move is in fulfillment of the President’s campaign prom­ise to run a lean and efficient government by appointing not more than 60 ministers.

“I promise you a leaner government. We’ll have fewer ministers and cut government expenditure, and any savings that we make will be used to better the lives of our teachers and other national workers,” the then presidential candidate said on one of his engagements.

So far, the President has made three ministerial nomina­tions as the countdown to the 60 begins.

If realised, it would be the leanest government in the history of the fourth republican dispensation.

 BY JULIUS YAO PETETSI

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