The Administrator General David Yaro has said that the unavailability of adequate resources for his department has rendered him powerless as the head of the department.

“I feel impotent being in such an office.”

“What I think I’m enjoying is the big name — the Administrator General that is all; otherwise in effect, I’m not as effective as I should be as Administrator General. I’m impotent and I have no powers to do anything.”

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Speaking on Accra-based Starr FM, Yaro said he wanted to leave the department because of these major upheavals. He, however, decided to stay and ‘fight’ for the good of his department.

“Since 2012, my office was given two used vehicles…old ones which we are using to go round anytime the minister indicates that he wants to check out…I let the vehicles take a team there to take inventory and other things.”

“Before then we were sitting down—we knew that we should go here and take inventory [but] we couldn’t move. We couldn’t do anything. It was a one-man office [run] by the first Administrator General who incidentally died and so we had to resort to the head of civil service to get four officers…to help in the routine running of the office—budget officer, planning officer, PRO,” he added.

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Section 9.1 of the Presidential Transition Act requires the Administrator General to prepare a natural register covering all national lands and any other land vested in the president by the Constitution.

Yaro argued that if their department was well resourced the alleged 200 missing government vehicles after the NDC handed over power to the NPP would not have happened.

The Communications Director at the presidency, Eugene Arhin, alleged that over 200 official vehicles are missing.

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Due to this President Akufo-Addo is still using his private Land Cruiser a month after being sworn into office.

Yaro suggested that this situation can be prevented in the future if the laws establishing the Office of the Administrator General must be reviewed so that those who unlawfully take State assets can be sanctioned by it.