The Office of the President has announced that for the period 1st January, 2022 to 31st December, 2022, it had some 361 political appointees and that the Office, Pursuant to section 11 of the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463), has submitted to Parliament the Annual Report on the staffing position of the Office of the President for the period 1st January 2022 to 31st December, 2022.
“During the reporting period, there were two (2) Ministers of State and forty-four (44) Senior Presidential Staffers at post. The other Political Appointees at the Office of the President numbered three hundred and fifteen (315). This brings the number of political appointees to three hundred and sixty-one (361),” the Office announced in a press release.
It then painstakingly gave a breakdown of the appointees and where exactly they work, adding their various designations..
“It is important to note that out of the 361 persons who are political appointees at the Office of the President, only 163 work physically at the Jubilee House. The others work in the offices to which they have been assigned.
It is also instructive to note that, in keeping with the established practice of previous governments of the 4th Republic, the 315 other political appointees include Special Assistants, Executive Assistants, Personal Assistants to Ministers of State and Regional Ministers, employees in the Office of the Vice President, Aides and Assistants assigned to the First Lady and Second Lady, as well as employees assigned to Government agencies under the Office of the President, such as NEIP, Free SHS Secretariat, MASLOC, Special Development Initiatives Secretariat, Monitoring and Evaluation Secretariat, Zongo and Inner Cities Development Secretariat, amongst others,” the release stressed.
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Credit: broadcastghana
