Saturday,
June 28, 2014
Folks, while we
wait to know the circumstances surrounding Ghana's participation in the ongoing
World Cup tournament and the dismal performance of the national team (the Black
Stars) this time around, many things have begun happening in government
circles.
Without even
waiting for the dust to settle on his own feeling that an investigation needs
to be conducted into the matter, President Mahama has swiftly removed the
political heads from the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
Elvis
Affriyie Ankrah has been sent into the "cooler" at the Presidency and
may not even have a desk to sit at. A mere "job-for-the-boys"
initiative.
Joseph
Yammin, his deputy at that Ministry, has been sent to the Ashanti Region as the
Deputy Regional Minister. Of course, he had been resident in Kumasi before
being brought to Accra to serve under Affriyie Ankrah. As if fearful of the
repercussions of his unguarded utterances regarding the "carting" of
supporters to cheer up the Black Stars in Brazil, he is reported to be thanking
God for influencing President Mahama in retaining him as a government
functionary. Such characters aren't fit to be in government, though. They are
so full of narrow, partisan political instincts as not to know that Ghana is
above those instincts and should be served as such. A party boy merely being
rewarded?
Of all, the
recycling of Mahama Ayariga in this scenario of “musical chairs” makes me laugh
a lot. He has now been moved from the Ministry of Information and Media
Relations to replace Affriyie Ankrah. This is the umpteenth time that Ayariga
is being nudged along. When I consider his pathetic performance at the Ministry
of Information and Media Relations, I cringe to know that he is now at the
Ministry of Youth and Sports (with all its endemic problems of corruption,
mismanagement, and what-have-you).
Other
appointments have been made, according to the news report (See:http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/2014/June-28th/mahama-ayariga-is-minister-for-youth-and-sports-joseph-yammin-reassigned.php)
Truth be
told, this kind of cosmetic measures will not inject life and dynamism into
President Mahama's administration. All these people being recycled for new
positions are already known as non-performing or performing below par wherever
they have been. So, why not just get rid of them and bring in better-equipped
people to move the administration forward?
Clearly,
there is a lot wrong with how President Mahama is reshuffling his team. After
all, though, I don't regard what he is doing as any reshuffling for as long as
no new blood is injected into the team. He is just retaining the old wine
bottle and filling it with the kind of wine that is neither new nor old (a
mix-mix kind of wine!!). Will that make any difference? I wonder; I really
wonder!!
I shall return…
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