Isaac Adongo, the Bolgatanga Central Member of Parliament, called President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s dismissal of Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister “window dressing.”
“Window dressing,” according to Mr. Adongo, is the practice of making something appear surprisingly appealing or favorable.
Mr. Adongo questioned the efficiency of the reshuffle in an interview with Eyewitness News on Citi FM, speculating that Mohammed Amin Adam’s power might be restricted as long as Ken Ofori-Atta is still active and powerful in the economic sphere.
In a significant ministerial reshuffle that took place on Wednesday, February 14, President Akufo-Addo dismissed Ken Ofori-Atta.
The decision affected all 13 of the existing ministers of state, including 10 cabinet members and 2 regional ministers.
Ken Ofori-Atta has been named the Presidential Advisor on the Economy, and Mohammed Amin Adam has been named the new Finance Minister.
“This is clearly window dressing. If you follow events and watch critically what has happened, I do not doubt the competence and the abilities of Dr.
“Mohammed Amin. He was my former colleague on the Finance Committee, my senior at school. I have a very good respect for him, except to say that they have given him the job in one hand and taken it with the right.”
“Because now he is the Minister and they have appointed the very person they are removing as the Senior Presidential Advisor on the Economy what that simply means is that for Mohammed Amin to get any policy through in cabinet or through executive approval of the president, the president has to go and consult Ken Ofori Atta.
“And so technically it means that Mohammed Amin cannot do anything if Ofori-Atta is not in agreement because he would advise the president against it,” he stated.
