Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the Minister of State for Government Communications has clarified there are just 30 presidential staffers and not 100 as claimed by Samuel Abu Jinapor.
According to Felix Kwakye Ofosu, all 30 presidential staffers have been named in a statement signed by himself.
On Friday, March 7, 2025, Kwakye Ofosu addressed the press saying, Everybody who has been appointed as a presidential staffer has been named in a statement signed by me. So, currently, there are 27 presidential staffers. All of them were publicly announced, unlike in the past when we only learned of them when the president submitted a list of presidential staff to parliament.
“This time, we went ahead to inform the people of Ghana and left nobody in doubt about the numbers.
“In addition to these 27, three people have been appointed to assist with some specific interventions that the president wants to undertake. They are referred to as directors. They do not have the ranking of presidential staffers, so they are described as presidential aides.
“If you add it to the list of staffers, there are just 30 people. Beyond that, no other staffers or presidential aides have been appointed,” he stated.
The member of Parliament (MP) for Damongo, Samuel Abu Jinapor has also claimed President John Dramani Mahama’s government is one of the largest in the history of Ghana.
According to him, although the government has appointed fewer ministers and their deputies, they have stuffed the presidency with numerous presidential staffers and advisors, increasing the number of appointees in government drastically.
Speaking on the floor of parliament, he said, “Mr. Speaker when you want to see the size of government and its bearing on the national ex-checker, don’t just look at the Ministers and deputy ministers, look at the government size holistically.”
“I want to submit that if you look at this government size holistically, the Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Presidential staffers, presidential aides, presidential advisors, President Mahama has formed arguably one of the biggest governments in the history of our government as it relates to the course of our national ex-checker,” he asserted.
