by JASMINE ARKU
Six of the newly created ministerial portfolios will operate from the Office of the President; President Nana Akufo-Addo has said. According to him, the budgetary allocations of the new portfolios will be captured under the Office of the President.
A total of 36 people have been nominated by the President as of now to handle 36 portfolios.
Some of the portfolios have been carved out of existing ones, whilst others are a re-introduction of some of the portfolios that existed during former President John Kufuor's era.
The six new ones which would operate under the Office of the President are Regional Reorganization and Development, Monitoring and Evaluation, Planning, Special Development Initiatives, Business Development and Inner City and Zongo Development.
Clarifying the creation of the new portfolios, Nana Akufo-Addo said “...they are not stand up ministries that are going to be established.They are all going to function as part of the Office of the President, but the ministers involved will have their dedicated portfolios and they will be funded under the budget of the Office of the President.”
Below is the full list of ministers designate and their portfolios
Yaw Osafo-Maafo - Senior Minister
Albert Kan-Dapaah - National Security
Alan Kyerematen - Trade and Indrustry
Ken Ofori Atta - Finance
Boakye Kyeremateng Agyarko - Energy
Dominic Nitiwul - Defence
Ambrose Dery - Interior
Owusu Afriyie Akoto -Agriculture
Shirley Ayorkor Botchway - Foreign Affairs
Gloria Akuffo - Attorney General and Justice
Hajia Alima Mahama - Local Government and Rural Development
Mathew Opoku Prempeh - Education
Kwaku Agyeman Manu - Health
Samuel Atta Akyea - Works and Housing
Joseph Kofi Adda - Sanitation and Water Resources
Ursula Owusu Ekuful- Communications
Kwesi Amoako Atta - Roads and Highways
Joe Ghartey - Railway Development
Otiko Afisa Djaba - Gender, Children and Social Protection
Ignatius Bafuor Awuah - Employment and Labour Relations
Kweku Ofori Asiamah - Transport
John Peter Amewu - Lands and Natural Resources
Prof Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng - Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation
Anthony Akoto Osei - Monitoring and Evaluation
Dan Kweku Botwe - Regional Reorganization and Development
Gyan Baffour - Planning
Catherine Afeku - Tourism and Culture
Mustapha Hamid - Information
Hawa Koomson - Special Development Initiatives
Isaac Asiamah - Youth and Sports
Elizabeth Afoley Quaye - Fisheries
Kofi Dzamesi - Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs
Cecilia Dapaah – Aviation
Boniface Sadiqque - Inner City and Zongo Development
Ibrahim Awal Mohammed - Business Development
Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu -Parliamentary Affairs.
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