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Parliament: President submits Annual Report on 2019 Presidential Office Staff

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President Akufo-Addo has presented the Annual Report on Presidential Office Staff for 2019 to Parliament in line with the Presidential Office Act, 1993 (Act 463).

According to sections of the list, the number of Ministers at the Presidency stands at five, Presidential Staffers 36,  and  270 Junior Political Appointees.This brings to 311 the number of political appointees currently at the Presidency.I n all, there are 934 staff, a drop from the figure of 957 in 2018.

In 2018, President Akufo-Addo forwarded a list of 998 Staffers and Ministers of State at the Presidency to Parliament. That list was for the period January 7, 2017, to December 31, 2017.

The figure dropped from 998 to 957 in the 2018 list presented to Parliament in 2019.

The size of the current government, the number of staffers at the presidency has been criticised  as excessive.

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