According to President-elect
Nana Akufo-Addo’s transition team, the outgoing administration will
hence take all such decisions in consultation with the incoming
administration.
The new Spokesperson of the
President-elect’s transition team, incoming Ofoase Ayirebi MP Kojo
Oppong Nkrumah confirmed this during the transition team’s second
meeting on Monday.
The representative of President-elect Nana
Akufo-Addo, on the Transition team, Yaw Osafo Marfo, had asked for
clarity on alleged fresh recruitments into the public sector, and the
awarding of fresh contracts days after the National Democratic Congress
government lost the elections.
On these
concerns, government reminded that
it remained the lawfully elected government of the Republic of Ghana and had the authority to exercise all the functions of government until the hand-over on January 7, 2017.
it remained the lawfully elected government of the Republic of Ghana and had the authority to exercise all the functions of government until the hand-over on January 7, 2017.
More hand over notes presented
Government’s
side of the transition team has also presented all but one of the hand
over notes to the incoming administration as required by the
Presidential Transition Act 2012 (Act 845).
Yaw Osafo Marfo,
acknowledged receipt of the notes at a press briefing, with the
exceptions notes on the office of government machinery.
By
the provisions of the Presidential Transition Act, the transition team
is to make comprehensive arrangements to regulate the transfer of
political power following a Presidential election.
The law
provides for the establishment of three specific committees; the
inauguration sub-committee, the government machinery sub-committee and
the presidency sub-committee and any other committees the transition
team considers relevant for the performance of its functions.
The
last meeting of the transition team on Wednesday, December 14 was to
settle on the sub-committees to be established and the composition of
each committee so that the various committees could begin the process of
planning the inauguration ceremony, handing over the machinery of the
Civil Service among other mandates.
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