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How Nduom intends to have a small but powerful gov't
According to him, a future government of the PPP will scrap the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development and also disband all regional ministries.
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His comments come on the back of calls by some section of Ghanaians for the presidency to maintain a smaller government in the wake of some economic challenges.
Many believe a huge government will deplete the national purse.
Interacting with the electorate live on Facebook on Thursday, 20 October, Dr Nduom said a lean government with fewer ministers will devolve the powers of the central government by allowing elected metropolitan, municipal and district chief executives to have total oversight over their localities without any political interference from regional ministers who are appointed by the president.
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Dr Nduom said a PPP government would also change the law that requires the president to appoint 50 percent of his ministers from parliament.
He believes such a move would ensure that members of parliaments, MPs remain focused on their law-making duties, thus strengthening the work of parliament and making it more independent.
Below is the live video from Nduom:
Dr Nduom is one of 13 presidential aspirants who was disqualified in the presidential race due to some anomalies on his forms.
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On reasons why the PPP’s Papa Kwesi Nduom was disqualified, the EC Chair said: “the Commission is unable to accept Dr Nduom’s nomination because again the number of subscribers in his forms did not make the requirements of regulation 7(2) of CI 94.”
“The details are as follows, one subscriber, Mr Richard Aseda, with voter ID number 7812003957 endorsed Dr Nduom’s forms in the Central region and again endorsed the same forms with the same ID number in the Volta region.
She said: “the same subscriber, Mr Richard Aseda endorsed the form with different signatures in both portions of the nomination forms. This again raises questions as to the legitimacy of one or both signatures.”
But Ayikoi Otoo, lawyer for Dr Nduom argues that the “law itself imposes a duty on the EC to grant candidates who might have difficulties with the nomination forms to correct them so if you fail to do that then it means… you have not worked in accordance with the law that set you up.”
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