Prez erred in Changing Boniface – Ofosu Ampofo

The decision by President Akufo-Addo to reshuffle the Minister of Zongo Development and Inner Cities, Alhaji Abubakar Saddique Boniface, was a bad one says National Vice Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Ofosu Ampofo.

According to him, Alhaji Boniface who is the Member of Parliament for the Madina Constituency was best for the job.

Speaking in an interview, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo who’s a former Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, stated that having known the competences of Boniface Abubakar Saddique he believes the latter would have been very efficient in the Zongo Ministry.

“The decision to remove Abubakar Saddique Boniface from the Ministry of Inner Cities and Zongo Development is a wrong move. I’ve personally known him and I thought that he would have been better served if he had maintained that Zongo Ministry, but that’s a decision made by the President. I don’t know what he’s going to do at the Office of the Vice President as a Minister of State. It is all waste of the tax payers money.” – he said.

President Akufo-Addo on Thursday, 9 August announced his first reshuffle.

Two new ministerial portfolios – Minister of State at the Office of the Vice-President and Minister of State at the Office of the President – were added.

Below is the full list of the reshuffled Ministers:

1. John Peter Amewu – Energy (Former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources);

2. Kweku Asoma-Cheremeh – Lands and Natural Resources (Former Brong Ahafo Regional Minister);

3. Kofi Adda – Aviation (Former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources);

4. Cecilia Abena Dapaah – Sanitation and Water Resources (Former Aviation Minister);

5. Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid – Minister of Inner City and Zongo Development (Former Information Minister);

6. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah – Information (Former Deputy Minister of Information);

7. Cynthia Morrison – Gender, Child and Social Protection;

8. Paulina Tangoba Abayage – Upper East Regional Minister (Former Ambassador to Italy);

9. Evans Opoku Bobie, Member of Parliament for Asunafo North Constituency and former deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Minister, is now Brong Ahafo Regional Minister-designate;

10. Martin Oti Gyarko, Member of Parliament for Techiman North Constituency, is now Deputy Brong Ahafo Regional Minister-designate;

11. Boniface Abubakar Saddique, Member of Parliament for Madina Constituency and former Minister for Inner City and Zongo Development, is now Minister of State at the Office of the Vice-President;

12. Rockson Bukari, former Upper East Regional Minister, is now Minister of State at the Office of the President;

13. Pius Enam Hadzide, former deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, is now Deputy Minister of Information;

14. Perry Curtis Okudzeto, former deputy Minister of Information, is now Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports; and

15. Otiko Afisa Djaba, former Minister of Gender, Child and Social Protection, is now Ambassador-designate to Italy