- Kwamena Bartels, Controller and Accountant General and Kofi Juma also make the list
A group formally known as Unemployed Graduates Association is calling for the dismissal of non-performing government appointees and overage Chief Executive and their deputies.
Key among the names of over aged Chief Executives that the Association of Graduates in Skills Development-Ghana (AGSD-GH) want dismissed is Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie popularly known as Sir John, a former General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) who currently heads the Forestry Commission.
The group claims the Forestry Commission Boss is 65 years hence should not be occupying his current position.
The group is also demanding for the head of the President’s daughter Gyankroma Akufo-Addo, over what they say is her non-performance as Director of Creative Arts Council.
In a statement signed by Desmond Bress-Biney, Graduates in skill Development disclosed that their demand for over age appointees to resign is aimed at ensuring the constitution is enforced.
“Article 119(1) of the Constitution of Ghana provides that ‘a public officer shall, except as otherwise provided in this Constitution, retire from the public service on attaining the age of sixty years’.”
According to the Association, they have identified 8 appointees of the administration that are passed the retirement age hence must be removed because their continued stay in office is “inimical to the welfare of the State and youth development.”
“AGSD-GH humbly calls on these individuals to retire and place their experience at the service of the nation so they can advise, motivate and inspire the youth. In as much as we understand that they may mean well for this country by serving beyond the retirement age, we cannot come to terms with the fact that they are violating our labour laws which most of them as members of parliament helped to draft and pass into law,” the group pleads.
The group also named a further seven CEOs and deputy CEOs of state institutions who they claim are as non-performing.
“We further call on the President to as a matter of urgency to call these individuals listed below to order or terminate their appointments as information reaching us from their various offices showed that they are either absent from their offices regularly or under-performing,” the stated.
Prominent on the overaged list of the group is Controller and Accountant General Eugene Ofosuhene, Kofi Jumah, Isaac Osei, KK Sarpong and Veteran politician Kwamena Bartels
Names
OVERAGED HEADS OF GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS
- Eugene Ofosuhene, 67 years – Controller and Accountant General,
- Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, 65, Forestry Commission
- Kofi Jumah, 68 years – CEO of Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC)
- Isaac Osei, 67 years – Managing Director, Tema Oil Refinery (TOR)
- Anthony Nsiah-Asare, 65 years – Director General of the Ghana Health Service
- K. K Sarpong, 65 years – CEO of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC
- Kwamena Bartels, 72 years – Board Chairman, Goil
- Kwame Osei-Prempeh, 62 year, Acting Managing Director & Group CEO, Goil
NON-PERFORMING CEOs AND DEPUTIES
- Kingsley Agyemang, Scholarships Secretariat
- Kosi Antwiwaa Yankey, National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI)
- Madam Afia Akoto, Deputy CEO, MASLOC
- Mrs Abibata Shanni Mahama Zakariah, Deputy CEO, MASLOC
- Afua Asabea Asare, Ghana Export Promotion Authority
- Gyankroma Akufo-Addo, Director of Creative Arts Council
- Richard Joojo Obeng, a Deputy CEO at the National Youth Authority
Story: Sena Nombo/Radiogoldlive.com
