President Nana Akufo-Addo has done nothing
wrong in sacking public officers appointed by the Mahama administration,
Director of Business Operations at Dalex Finance & Leasing Company, Mr Joe
Jackson has said.
Mr Jackson told Moro Awudu on Class91.3FM’s Executive
Breakfast Show on Monday, 30 January that President Akufo-Addo’s critics who are
flaying him for sacking officials appointed by ex-president John Mahama are
“ignorant” of the transition laws.
He said as far as political
appointments are concerned, “… The current law says that when the administration
ends, your appointment has ended.”
“I will even go so far as to say that
if you are a political appointee and you are continuing to occupy your office in
some parastatal, you are in breach of the law. … Let us be clear on this, the
law sates clearly that on 7 December you are to vacate your position,” he
said.
He wondered why some public officials appointed by the Mahama
administration were still occupying their offices despite the change in
government even though Ministers appointed by Mr Mahama left office on the same
day Mr Mahama did.
“Why were you in position?” he asked.
Among
some of the appointees sacked so far is Dr Stephen Opuni of Cocobod. His
dismissal was welcomed by both members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the
main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
