"My job is to police my colleagues" - Anthony Akoto Osei

Monitoring and Evaluation Minister-designate Anthony Akoto Osei says his specific role is to monitor his colleague ministers.

He told the Appointments Committee that, per his job description, he would be policing his colleagues.

He added that, the ministers may use their monitoring and evaluation departments to generate information he needs... "My job is partially to police my colleagues".

He said, he would ensure government machinery works in efficient, effective and timely.

Akoto Osei added that the Chief of Staff handles the presidency but he is going to handle the results-churning machinery of government. He is to ensure that government machinery works.

"Each sector ministry is going to come up with a set of performance indicators in their sectors that cabinet will have to approve. If the Finance Minister said that we were going to raise 17.5 per cent of GDP as revenue for the year 2017, that is the indicator and we will agree that every quarter he will come and report on how far he is reaching that goal.

"Assuming that after the first quarter he has managed to collect only five per cent, then we will sit down and figure out what is happening, because by the end of the year we expect 17.5 per cent and if at the end of the first quarter you have five per cent, then there is a problem," he noted.