The Member of Parliament for Assin South in the Central Region Rev. John Ntim Fordjour has revealed that someone died due to President John Dramani Mahama’s revocation of appointments.
According to Rev. John Ntim Fordjour, the minority were clad in black at the State of the Nation Address in solidarity with masses of 23,000 people whose appointments were revoked.
He noted that some of the revoked appointments were persons who have been working for five to seven years.
Speaking on Good Morning Ghana, Rev. John Ntim Fordjour detailed, “For us, we wear black in solidarity with the masses of 23,000 people whose appointments have been revoked. The source of livelihood is so critical, and so important because when people have been to school, trained and become professionals and got jobs and then all of a sudden, you revoke their appointment their source of livelihood is gone”.
“For some of them, it is so sad that they have been teaching for four months, five months they go to a village that is not their hometown, they have no relatives, and they have to go and borrow money, and pay rent in advance for two years, some are nurses they posted to very hard to reach areas they have to go and borrow money to buy motorcycles that will take them to work and come back, and after five months six months you revoke their appointment or terminate it”, he added.
The member of parliament added, “It is so insensitive, there was one who died as a result of that revocation, in all of these instances if one of them is ur relative, if one of them is your brother, you will feel the pain, we are very youthful people. The youths seeking jobs have got jobs and you come in to terminate unfairly.
We are not even talking about people who were terminated after December 7, some of the appointment letters that came, some of them have been at work for over 5 years, 7 years you come to terminate all of them”, he stated.
A letter dated February 10, 2025, by the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah directed all Heads of government institutions to nullify all appointments made by the erstwhile Akufo-Addo administration after December 7, 2024.
Meanwhile, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has clarified that President John Mahama’s decision to revoke all Public Sector appointments made after December 7 does not mean all employees appointed under the previous administration are being dismissed.
According to him, the claims that President Mahama is sacking all persons hired during the NPP’s 8-year term are deliberate distortions and propaganda.
In an interview on Joy News on Friday, February 28th, 2025 he said, “President Mahama is not sacking everybody employed under the last administration. That is not what is happening. If you were employed before the transition, you are fine”.
Using his own ministry as an example, Ablakwa stated that after reviewing employment records, he confirmed that the Finance Ministry had granted financial clearance as early as July, with budget allocations made for hiring additional staff that year.
He noted that while some employees received their appointment letters in November and December, the recruitment process had begun much earlier.
He disclosed that other ministries had conducted similar reviews and confirmed that employees hired through due process were not being dismissed.
However, he stressed that the real issue was the “malicious recruitments” made after the elections, which any government would have grounds to challenge.
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Someone died due to the revocation of appointments – @NtimFordjour on why the Minority were clad in black at #SONA2025#GoodMorningGhana #MetroTV pic.twitter.com/jo5a7qfi1k
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