PRESIDENT, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has named 54 persons to serve as ministers of state at the presidency and deputy ministers of state in his government.
In a letter addressed to the Speaker of Parliament on Wednesday, March 15, 2017, and copied to the media, the President urged the House to approve the nominees which include the Deputy Majority Leader, Sarah Adwoa Sarfo, penned to be a Minister of State at the Office of the President in charge of Public Procurement.
The President of the Central University College, Professor Kwesi Yankah will also be the Minister of State at the Ministry of Education in charge of Tertiary education.
The names of the nominees for Ministers of State are ; Minister of State at the Office of the President; Brian Acheampong and Minister of State at the Ministry of Agriculture.
For the list of deputy ministers, while some ministries have been allocated three deputies, others have one, who will support the substantive ministers to deliver on the government’s mandate.
The names of the nominees for Deputy Ministers are ; Ministry of Finance; Kwaku Kwarteng, Hon Abena Osei Asare, and Charles Adu Boahen, Ministry of Energy; Owuraku Aidoo, Joseph Cudjoe, and Mohammed Amin Anta
Others are; Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development; Osei Bonsu Amoah, Collins Ntim, Kwasi Boateng Agyei, Ministry of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Ama Dokuaa Asiamah Agyei, and Perry Curtis Kwabla Okudzeto, Ministry of Agriculture; William Agyapong Quaitoo, Sagre Bambangi, and George Oduro
Others also include; Ministry of Trade and Industry; Hon Carlos Kingsley Ahenkorah and Robert Ahomka-Lindsey, Ministry of Roads and Highways; Hon Kwabena Owusu Aduomi and Hon Anthony N-Yoh Puowele Karbo, Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources; Benito Owusu Bio and Barbara Oteng Gyasi, Ministry of Works and Housing; Freda Prempeh and Eugene Antwi, Ministry of Education; Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum and Barbara Ayisi Acher, Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice; Godfred Dame and Joseph Dinkiok Kpemk, Ministry of Health; Hon Kingsley Aboagye Gyedu and Tina Mensah, Ministry of Railways Development; Kwaku Agyenim Boateng and Andy Appiah-Kubi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration; Mohammed Habbib Tijani and Charles Owiredu, Ministry of Communications; George Andah and Vincent Sowah Odotei, Ministry of Water Resources and Sanitation; Patrick Boamah and Michael Yaw Gyato and Ministry of Defence Major Derrick Oduro.
The rest are; Ministry of The Interior; Henry Quartey, Ministry of Environment Science and Technology and Innovation; Patricia Appiagyei, Ministry of Regional Reorganisation and Development; Martin Agyei-Mensah Korsah, Ministry of Transport; Nii Kwartei Titus Glover, Ministry of Employment And Social Welfare; Bright Wireko Brobbey, Ministry of Fisheries And Aquaculture; Francis Kingsley Ato Cudjoe, Ministry of Aviation – Kwabena O. Darko-Mensah, Ministry of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Paul Essien, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Gifty Twum Ampofo, Ministry of Youth and Sports; Pius Enam Hadzide, Ministry of Tourism, Creative Arts And Culture; Dr Ziblim Barri Iddi, Ministry of Monitoring And Evaluation; William Kwasi Sabi.
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