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“Our experiences so far under different party admins in this 4th Republic show that this elastic presidential power to appoint ministers, combined with the implicit constitutional power of the president to create ministries without recourse to specific legislation (which has been given additional statutory grounding in the Civil Service Amendment Act 2001), can very easily lead to a ministerial pool comprising an absurdly high number of ministers – a number far out of proportion to the size of our economy.”
 --Prempeh
“Our experiences so far under different party admins in this 4th Republic show that this elastic presidential power to appoint ministers, combined with the implicit constitutional power of the president to create ministries without recourse to specific legislation (which has been given additional statutory grounding in the Civil Service Amendment Act 2001), can very easily lead to a ministerial pool comprising an absurdly high number of ministers – a number far out of proportion to the size of our economy.” --Prempeh