Mahama has appointed only 30 presidential staffers, not 100 – Kwakye Ofosu

The Minister of State for Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has dismissed claims that President John Dramani Mahama has appointed 100 individuals to serve as presidential staffers.

According to him, the president has only appointed 30 staffers, a figure he says is significantly lower than that of the previous government.

This statement comes in response to remarks by Samuel Abu Jinapor, the Member of Parliament for Damongo, who accused President Mahama of failing to uphold his commitment to appointing a lean government by allegedly exceeding the promised 60 ministers and appointing over 100 staffers at the presidency.

Addressing the matter at a press conference on Friday, March 7, 2025, Kwakye Ofosu stated that all appointed presidential staffers had been publicly announced, dismissing any claims of undisclosed appointments.

“Everybody who has been appointed as a presidential staffer has been named in a statement signed by me. So, currently, there are 27 presidential staffers. All of them were publicly announced, unlike in the past when we only learned of them when the president submitted a list of presidential staff to parliament.

“This time, we went ahead to inform the people of Ghana and left nobody in doubt about the numbers.

“In addition to these 27, three people have been appointed to assist with some specific interventions that the president wants to undertake. They are referred to as directors. They do not have the ranking of presidential staffers, so they are described as presidential aides.

“If you add it to the list of staffers, there are just 30 people. Beyond that, no other staffers or presidential aides have been appointed,” he stated.