Having led the West African country of Ghana for only 16 months after a campaign that rode on the promise
of protecting the public purse for the sake of the ordinary citizen, this news in the real estate market of London send many a tongue wagging dejavu.
We have been told by the government propagandists that the appointment of this humongous number of ministers is a way
of protecting the public purse.
It is difficult to see how appointing such a large number of ministers, who will all be on ministerial salaries and benefits, can possibly amount to the promise
of protecting the public purse.
Not exact matches
Simply put, democratic nations are celebrated for the robust and transparent systems they put in place that inspire the confidence
of all in producing credible electoral outcomes that jealously
protect the
public purse and not how often courts annul elections within the electoral cycle.
It is that competence, coupled with integrity in the conduct
of public transactions, ensuring value - for - money,
protecting the
public purse, that are going to bring the dream
of a happy and prosperous Ghana, a Ghana Beyond Aid, quickly within our grasp.
Mr. Speaker, expenditures were generally controlled to minimize overruns due to the strict usage
of the GIFMIS as well as the implementation
of quartely cash allotments to MDAs.We are also seeing a new commitment in
public procurements to
protect the
public purse.
The Strategic Thinkers Network - Africa (STRANEK) is
of the strong view that the list
of staffers at the Presidency as submitted to Parliament in accordance with section 11
of the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463) results in a wasteful expenditure which is not in tandem with President Akufo Addo's policy
of protecting and saving the
public purse from profligate expenditure and wanton abuse.
Executive Director
of ASEPA, Mensah Thompson is worried the development is draining the very
public purse Nana Akufo - Addo promised to
protect.
The Chinese Government has applauded President Nana Akufo - Addo and the Minister
of State in charge
of Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo, for what it says is their commitment to protecting the public
Public Procurement, Sarah Adwoa Safo, for what it says is their commitment to
protecting the
public public purse.
Conciliation and arbitration processes were included but further safeguards, presumably intended to
protect the
public purse, allowed a position where the Government
of the day, through the Home Secretary, could overule the decisions
of the arbiters.
The NDC chairman said the size
of the government was inconsistent with Akufo - Addo pledge to
protect the
public purse.
One
of the Committee's recommendations: «An assumption
of the employment status
of «worker» by default, rather than «self - employed» by default, would
protect both those workers and the
public purse.
Second, the appointments betray inadequate sensitivity to the weak fiscal condition
of the country today, as it flies in the face
of the President's promise to
protect the
public purse.
The release issued on Thursday March 16, 2017, said «appointments betray inadequate sensitivity to the weak fiscal condition
of the country today, as it flies in the face
of the President's promise to
protect the
public purse.»
Speaking at a Media Encounter on Wednesday as part
of his one - year stay in office at the Flagstaff House, the President said his government is working tirelessly to
protect the
public purse as he promised prior to election 2016.
With the greatest
of Honor, If you find anything wrong be it Corruption or Misappropriation and Mismanagement, kindly be frontal and deal with it in Court; after all you pledged to
protect the
Public Purse or?
«In order to
protect the
public purse by ensuring maximum gains through economies
of scale, the Ministry
of...
The Speaker
of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye has urged new members
of 7th parliament to work diligently to
protect the
public purse.
This kind
of casual attitude to spending taxpayers» cash undermines faith in the
public sector and is yet more evidence
of how under Labour the Audit Commission forgot that its job was to
protect the
public purse.»
There needs to be much firmer legislation to prevent this, or at the least they should not expect to be
protected out
of the
public purse.
But do codes
of professional conduct capture the legal ethics needed to
protect the
public purse?