World Record! Ghana President Appoints 110 Ministers
President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana[/caption]
President Nana Akufo-Addo seems to be on his way to entering the Guinness Book for having the highest number of ministers in the world.
Akufo-Addo has appointed a total number of 110 people to serve as ministers, ministers of state and deputies in his administration, the highest in the country’s history.
Out of the total 110, 20 are regional ministers and their deputies, 40 ministers for various ministries, with 50 deputies.
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Ghana based Citi Fm 97.3 reports that the president’s latest list of appointments presented to Parliament, he named 50 persons to serve as Deputy Ministers, and 4 to serve as Ministers of State.
Nana Addo by this number, would have the highest list of ministers and deputies to serve in any government since the start of the Fourth Republic.
In Jerry John Rawlings’ first term after the 1992 elections, he had Nineteen (19) substantive ministers, but he increased to Twenty-Five (25) in his second term. John Agyekum Kufuor in his first time increased the number of substantive ministers to Thirty-One (31), and maintained the same number in his second term.
The late John Evans Atta Mills in his first term managed to beat down the number to Twenty-Three (23) to fit into his vision. It must however be noted that, he had six (6) Ministers of State in addition to the Twenty-Three (23) bringing the number to Twenty-Nine (29).
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He unfortunately didn’t have a second term after his demise.
John Dramani Mahama in his first time had Twenty-Four (24) substantive ministers, with Five (5) Ministers of State at the presidency, making it Twenty-Nine 29, the exact number Atta Mills had.
This list however doesn’t include regional ministers and their deputies, as well as deputies for the various ministries.
