Perfect opportunity to cut size of government - Economist tells Akufo-Addo
The President of Africa Investment Group, Dr. Sam Ankrah, has supported calls by the Majority Leader of Parliament and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, to alter the constitution to put roof on the size of government.
He said the legislator's accommodation to, in addition to other things, revise the constitution to restrict the size of government clergymen to 19, and the designating powers of the President, could be a drawn out starkness measure equipped for changing the financial fortunes of the country.
"I thoroughly concur with Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu that things can't proceed with along these lines assuming we are to see the kind of advancement we want," Dr. Ankrah, an individual of Chartered Institute of Economists - Ghana, said.
He said it would save the express the large numbers government spends to keep up with services and help to check steady financial plan overwhelms.
Past this, he said: "We should consider too, a consolidation of some state organizations, as there exist some inefficient duplication of jobs, with their chaperon trouble on the state's assets"; adding that: "With the ongoing duplication of jobs, establishments some of the time are either confused, or set up to brawl over who ought to take up what jobs and obligations. At the point when done well, there will be more proficiency in assistance conveyance and an incentive for cash for the citizen".
With respect to veteran administrator's interests over the inordinate designating powers of the President, Dr. Ankrah expressed arrangements of specific heads of public organization like the Electoral Commission, Attorney General and Minister of Justice should be bi-hardliner, as those arrangements rise above political systems.
Making sense of further, he said: "History has instructed us that albeit such representatives have been generally free in their consultations, they are dared to incline faithful to the political belief systems of the naming President. So I accept, a board of trustees comprised of equivalent participation and equivalent power, attracted from the two driving gatherings Parliament ought to be comprised to mutually select somebody they're both OK with, to be named by the President".
He said the equivalent ought to be finished for the arrangement of the National Development Planning Commission, the Attorney-General (surrendered to the Ministry of Justice), and the Inspector-General of Police, among others, to lay out a more grounded level of political and public trust and backing for choices they take.
On the Majority Leader's perspective on the significance of a Vice President without any the President, he said: "as far as capability, the Majority Leader is correct; notwithstanding, I am of the compelling assessment that the Office of the Vice President should be kept up with."
He clarified that for safeguard the harmony and political strength of the nation, it's a speculation worth supporting.
The Majority Leader, who is one of the longest serving individuals from Parliament, talked at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and required a large number of changes to the 1992 conservative constitution to invert the lessening fortunes of the country.
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