Former Chief Executive Officer of The National Entrepreneurship & Innovation Programme (NEIP), Kofi Ofosu Nkansah, has counseled the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) against sacking public servants who they deem to have ties with the New Patriotic Party.
He is of the view that if the NDC continues on the tangent of sacking public servants just because they think they are affiliated with the opposition political party, it sends a wrong signal and sets a dangerous precedent for the future.
To him, it was right that CEOs and Deputy CEOs are removed because their tenure is tied to that of the President.
In a post shared via social media he said “My advice to the NDC Government is to limit the dismissals to Political Appointees. I have supported the removal of NPP CEOs, Deputies and Political Appointees because our appointments were Political. We leave once the President who appointed us leaves. That has been the practice since 1992 and I have no problem with it.
But If this is extended to regular Public Servants who were not appointed by the President, irrespective of when they were appointed as has started, a bad precedent will be set for future Governments to also sack anybody at all.
If that’s the kind of Ghana we want to have, then they can “carry on”. Power is transient”.
