Ghana sets new record by appointing 110 Ministers

Ghana has set a new world record after President Nana Akufo-Addo named 110 ministers, the biggest size of government in the nation's history and anywhere else in the world.


The president on Wednesday said the appointment which has sparked a huge public outcry includes dozens of lower-level and regional ministers. 

Nana Akufo-Addo on Friday defended his controversial decision to appoint a 110-minister government, by calling it a "necessary investment"

"I'm aware that people are concerned about what they see as maybe the cost of this large government," Akufo-Addo admitted.

"It is a necessary investment to make."

Akufo-Addo, was elected in December on a promise to fix a host of economic problems and fight corruption.

He stressed that his ministers "are coming to work, it is not going to be a holiday" and insisted that the costs of his government would not be as high as people might think.

"The number, for instance, among the deputy ministers — 42 out of 50 are all parliamentarians, and in effect converting them from parliamentarians into ministers, the marginal cost of that transformation is minimal in terms of the public exchequer," he said.

The ministers are needed for the "rapid transformation of this country", Akufo-Addo said.