Professionals must be made to resign from their jobs before taking gov’t appointments—H. Kwesi Prempeh
Chairman of Ghana’s constitutional review committee, H. Kwesi Prempeh has questioned why professionals in certain fields are allowed to keep their jobs while handling government portfolios. He believes that it is about time people are made to resign from their jobs if they intend to take on appointments in government. His comment comes on the […] The post Professionals must be made to resign from their jobs before taking gov’t appointments—H. Kwesi Prempeh appeared first on MyNewsGh.
Chairman of Ghana’s constitutional review committee, H. Kwesi Prempeh has questioned why professionals in certain fields are allowed to keep their jobs while handling government portfolios.
He believes that it is about time people are made to resign from their jobs if they intend to take on appointments in government.
His comment comes on the back of the announcement of the resignation of the Acting Commissioner of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Kwasi Sarpong, from KPMG, where he was a managing partner.
To H. Kwesi Prempeh, this has been a worrying feature of Ghana’s public sector space that needs to be looked at going forward.
His opinion shared via social media read “The right thing to do. Necessary, in fact. The Government should have insisted on that ab initio. Mixing government work, including political office, and private ventures, including professional practice, though quite common in Ghana, is indeed often quiet problematic, as it gives rise to conflicts of interests, both actual and in appearance.
In fact, I have often wondered why we allow, for example, lawyers who are in active politics, notably MPs and Ministers, to remain, concurrently, active in their private legal practice, even sometimes taking on cases for clients on the opposite side of a litigation or transaction with the Government. Same applies to active politicians in private business who freely continue to do business with Government. Whose interest do you think they would serve first?”.
Meanwhile, a private citizen has sued the government of Ghana over the appointment of Kwasi Sarpong as the Commissioner of the Ghana Revenue Authority.
The legal action, brought through the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, challenges the validity of Mahama’s decision to appoint Sarpong to the position.
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