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Nana Yaw Osafo-Mafo, Senior Advisor to the President
After announcing his retirement as a senior minister, Nana Yaw Osafo-Maafo has rejoined the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a senior presidential aide.
According to a report in Graphic Online sighted by Ghanaweb, the former senior minister announced his new appointment on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, while speaking at Birim Central Municipal Council in Akuem Odah in the Eastern Region.
According to Osafo-Maafo, the president gave him the new role last week.
Ahead of the announcement of the Cabinet of the new presidential government, it was reported that Osafo-Maafo had resigned from his position as a senior minister.
However, following the news, IMANI Africa Chairman Franklin Cudjoe asserted that the post of Deputy Minister had in fact been abolished and that Osafo-Maafo had not resigned as reported.
According to the IMANI boss, the scrapping of the deputy minister’s portfolio was the result of ineffective contribution to the government agency.
The post of deputy minister is part of a new portfolio created by President Akufo-Addo during his first term as president, increasing the number of ministers in Mahama’s government from about 80 to 125 in his first term. Ta.
In response to public backlash and criticism over this number, the president, when assembling his team for a second term, announced that the total number of cabinet members serving in his second term would not exceed 85.
The president has so far made 64 cabinet appointments and is expected to add several more, as no deputy ministers have been appointed yet.
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