Ghana President John Mahama has reduced the country’s ministries from 30 to 23 in a bid to cut government spending.
Mahama’s decision – an executive order – to trim the number of government ministries was contained in a gazette dated January 9 – two days after he took office.
The West African country would no longer have the ministries of information, sanitation and water resources, national security, railway development, parliamentary affairs, public enterprises, and chieftaincy and religious affairs.
The scrapped ministries were in place under Nana Akufo-Addo, immediate-past president of Ghana.
Mahama’s cost-cutting move is in contrast to that of President Bola Tinubu, his Nigerian counterpart, who increased ministries to 48 in 2023 from 44 under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.