The Minister of State in charge of Government Communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has assured that the government is committed to reinstating all public sector workers whose appointments were revoked since the government took over.
This, he explained, will be done only when it is established that their appointments followed due process, saying the government intended to maintain fairness and adherence to laid-down rules.
To ensure this, he disclosed that the government has set up a revocation committee headed by the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, to examine such appointments and dismissals critically.
Kwakye Ofosu disclosed this while speaking on Joy FM’s Top Story on Tuesday, September 16, 2025.
He said, “As I speak to you, there’s a revocation committee set up under the auspices of the Chief of Staff, which is perusing all the cases on their merits.”
He categorically stated that “where it is found that due process was not followed, the dismissals will stand, but where it is shown that due process is followed, those people will be reinstated.”
During the transition period after the 2024 elections, allegations were rife that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, which had been voted out, was in a rush to make last-minute appointments into the civil service without following proper recruitment procedures.
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In view of this, the new government under the National Democratic Congress revoked some of these appointments, which were suspected to have been made without following due process.
However, this initiative by the government suffered massive criticism as netizens accused the new government led by President John Dramani Mahama of trying to free up space to favour its party members, as those whose appointments were revoked were perceived to be affiliated with the NPP.
Touching on this, Kwakye Ofosu said, “The fact that they are affiliated with NPP is not an issue. They [NPP] bypassed laid-down processes.”
He explained further that the NPP was in power for eight years and employed everybody that they needed to employ, “yet they lost elections, and within a matter of a month, they had railroaded people into the civil service without real cost to due process.”
“We are a country governed by rules, so you cannot bypass the laid-down process and unfairly tilt the process in favour of persons aligned to one political party or the other,” he stated.
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