You are here: HomeNewsPolitics2017 03 15Article 519075

Size does not matter, consider effeciency – Mustapha Hamid defends appointments

This article is closed for comments.

Read Comments Comments (102)

  • SGT. ANANE 7 years ago

    ANOTHER NPP GOOD FOR NOTHING FOOL!!!!

  • APONKYE 7 years ago

    Nana should send this albino to Tanzania where he will be more useful to the medicine men.

  • . ..AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

    WHO IS STEALING FROM WHO
    According to a story attributed to the NDC MP for Asunafo South district, the NPP plagiarized the NDC’s 2016 budget. In his statement " Paragraph 273 of the 2017 budget says principally that the go ...
    read full comment

  • ATSU, HO 7 years ago

    As for the size of govt no matter how efficient they become this is disappointing!

  • facts 7 years ago

    THE PEOPLE OF GHANA ARE WAITING IMPATIENTLY TO HEAR THE OUTCOME OF THE BRIBERY CASE INVOLVING PARLIAMENTARIANS AND MINISTERIAL APPOINTEES. NO COVER UP WHATSOEVER !

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    awful

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    useless

  • OLIVER TWIST 7 years ago

    Hamid, don't try to defend the indefensible.

    This is insanity plain and simply.

  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
    read full comment

  • M Shanunu 7 years ago

    very soon every house will have a minister,guys we are no more in campaign era,think smart,an over blown government is a recipe for disaster,most of them would not know their jurisdictions.this is not smart govt but rather pl ...
    read full comment

  • Stinky Finger 7 years ago

    I guess Hamid's wife lied to him about size.It really matters.The government is too big.

  • NANA 7 years ago

    THESE BAY WITH TOY FACE SHOULD SHUT UP. NPP LOOSING GROUND. NOTHING GOOD IS HOPEFULLY OUT WITH FROM NANA AND BAWUMEA

  • SAY IT LOUD 7 years ago

    I CAN FORESEE A STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENCY THAT WILL ALLAY THE FEARS OF GHANAIANS. WE ARE ALL AFRAID OF THE FINANCIAL BURDEN THIS HIGH NUMBER OF MINISTER WILL BRING. IT MAY NOT BE 10% CUT IN SALARIES BUT SOME DECISION TO S ...
    read full comment

  • GIDIGBA 7 years ago

    This joker is at again. Every time he opens his mouth, I just look at him and laugh. Nsuo betor. You mark my words.

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    value for trash

  • PATAPAA TRUMP 7 years ago

    You waite,I will export him to Tanzania.

  • GIDIGBA 7 years ago

    Ha, ha, ha.

  • General 7 years ago

    One Dwarf, one Albino.

  • . ..AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

    MAHAMA IS BARAWO BANZA
    Mahama is so heartless, wicked and corrupt that he wouldn’t blink stealing from a helpless orphan. Please read the following:
    Ghana’s President Hurls Insults At Obasanjo At African Forum In London ...
    read full comment

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    horrible

  • ANDROPOV 7 years ago

    this is pure madness, ghanaians aint see nothing yet. wonkyendi aban

  • Kofi 7 years ago

    Mustapha be very careful, number really matters. We can foot all these bills. The leaner the better. This is just jobs for the boys. Don't try to defend this as is indefensible.

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    Akufo's incompetence on display

  • 20/20 7 years ago

    Africa, nkwasiasem nkoaaa everyday, meanwhile the ignorant masses are comfortable in their ignorance.

  • Obed Adore 7 years ago

    I agree 100% with you. We have set these politicians free just to misbehave..

  • Ekow 7 years ago

    20/20, This big statement that you said it so easily like that? I am with you 100%

  • Lixo 7 years ago

    The Ghanaian major problem is simply, common sense.

  • Joe 7 years ago

    This is bull crap only a fool like Mustapha Hamid will say size of govt does matter. Are they going to work for free who is going pay all this money.

  • Joe 7 years ago

    If his argument is anything to go by,then all of them should be ministers. What a fool called minister.He needs a basic class in "the principle of diminishing returns"

  • KB 7 years ago

    Fool, ask your wife if size dont matter. Let her see a bigger bola and see if she will not dumb your albino ass. Its as if this guy becomes more dumb as he grows older

  • PATAPAA TRUMP 7 years ago

    Nonsense performance matters not size ask your wife a big dig which doesn't perform and small size which performs,ask her preferences fool

  • Joe 7 years ago

    If your argument is any thing to go by,then there is no need for big size since he can achieve the same results with small size,because don't forget the larger the size of government,the larger the expenditure. So if you can ...
    read full comment

  • INCOMPETENCE AGAIN AT DISPALY 7 years ago

    HEY ALBINO WHO TOLD YOU SIZE DOES NOT MATTER...DONT DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE...CLEAR SHOW OF INCOMPETENCE...I AM DISAPPOINTED

  • KWESI OPPONG 7 years ago

    NPP is very good at twisting situations to suit themselves! If it had been the NDC in government with such a bloated administration of 100 plus ministers, we all know how the NPP would have been baying for blood and criticizi ...
    read full comment

  • Abdulai Mahamadu 7 years ago

    Stupid talks from a stupid minister.Large family size,large spending.

  • THUNDER 7 years ago

    MAY BE I SHOULD APPLY TOO.JOBS BE WHAT! DEN DEY SHARE LIKE GROUNDNUTS. WHAAAT.

  • TRIM THE JOKE 7 years ago

    Size matters.
    Efficiency matters.
    Smartness matters.
    Competence matters.
    Bureaucracy matters.

  • FRANK 7 years ago

    THIS IS CRAZY! Laughable Govt.

  • JAY 7 years ago

    Stop trying to justify the unjustifiable,how come former President Kuffour was able to govern with about 88 ministers?

  • araba 7 years ago

    Foolish talk if size is not matter why did you preach hardship. Are they not going to be paid by the Government or they are working for free. Is it not the taxpayers money you are going to be paid with. Incompetent people. ...
    read full comment

  • cash 7 years ago

    akuffo addo is a big disappointment. how can you employ 110 ministers, when we are in austerity.remember also that their pay has been increased.

  • Kwese 7 years ago

    There is no austerity..they are conning us.it is pay back time for the financiers, invicuble forces, verandar boys, and girls for akuffi addo.wait and see the work place recruitments..

  • KWAKU GBLOENAWO 7 years ago

    Mustapha Hamid, it is this same arrogant attitude from the babies with sharp teeth that led to NDC's demise. You have started your own, just wait for 2020.

  • Kwame 7 years ago

    HOW MANY OF THOSE AT THE NEWS CONFERENCE WERE LISTENING OR PAYING ATTENTION TO WHAT THE MINISTER WAS SAYING? THE VIDEO SHOWED MOST OF THEM DISTRACTED. HOW CAN THEY ASK INFORMED QUESTIONS WITH THAT ATTITUDE? WHAT A WASTE OF TH ...
    read full comment

  • Yebo 7 years ago

    This guy is really messed up.Would he not have criticized the NDC if they chose the path of big government? These guys are about to loot the oubliv purse.This Hamid guy is only a bootlicker and an opportunist.Hope tbese guys ...
    read full comment

  • What was the minister saying? 7 years ago

    What did the minister mean by saying it doesn't matter whether it was a few ministers of more ministers but what matters is efficiency. If you are efficient, you have fewer people doing a old job. If you are inexperienced, yo ...
    read full comment

  • Kitiki 7 years ago

    Right on point!
    Thank you for teaching theme basic economics.

  • chris 7 years ago

    i thought Nana said he would protect the public purse. Eeeeiiii politicians?
    Mr.Minister size matters. consider the resources and all the free free things for this ministers.Dont think we are fools

  • Al Hajj AAA-Rashid(OH.USA) 7 years ago

    This guy needs a basic lesson in Accounting. Has he forgotten of the wage bill that comes with the size of this gov't? Cars, housing, free fuel, salaries: drivers body guards, etc, etc, etc. Then comes the ESB(End of service ...
    read full comment

  • APPIAH KUI DESMOND 7 years ago

    Kablikadza yakame government and moronic government. Bloody useless. Nana Addo is an idiot.

  • Photosy 7 years ago

    if the president cannot pick up 10 people with integrity,honesty and won't loot but be efficient enough to do the job a 110 people appointed have to do, then NPP is bereft of men of efficiency. and by the way does this Mustap ...
    read full comment

  • AZAA 7 years ago

    Indeed size does not matter, that is why Hearts of Oak won a match of Nine against Eleven with Kotoko. Mustapha is right.

  • John 7 years ago

    This is pathetic!! Almost every active NPP member is a minister. This is unacceptable. DR Nyaho Tamaklo Predicted that if Nana Addo was elected, Ghanaians will see a mess in leadership at the Flagstaff House. Does anybody o ...
    read full comment

  • Chief amawnkwa e 7 years ago

    Tell nana addo the truth..if u love him.
    Ghanaian want lean and efficient not
    Overbloated even if irs efficient...there cost to size and if it was your own money ..will u employ 10people ,pay them while u can do that same ...
    read full comment

  • Joe 7 years ago

    If size doesn't matter but efficiency,then why not achieve efficiency with small size since large size means large expenditure. I thought you will say you can only achieve your goal with large size rather than saying size doe ...
    read full comment

  • NKF 7 years ago

    Do you understand efficiency? Incompetent minister! Efficiency is a gain in optimal productivity with minimal cost. You parade 110 wounded lions of cross breads and expect optimal productivity. How can this old man who's over ...
    read full comment

  • Kutsii 7 years ago

    Do u know what it means by Article 71 office holders ? Indeed NPP is rather incompetent. Appoint Ministers for the open defecation and TOILETS. Nonsense

  • Jackson 7 years ago

    IF SIZE DOESN'T MATTER THEN IN THIS CASE MONEY MATTERS.MULTIPLY 110 MINISTERS BY ONE CAR EACH,RESIDENTIAL ACCOMMODATION,TRAVELLING EXPENSES, ETC. AND YOU WILL SURELY CRY FOR MOTHER GHANA.

  • Joe 7 years ago

    A whole minister advancing this type of argument? He is even choking on his own words

  • FREE EDUCATION 7 years ago

    Hahaha, hahaha, hahaha. Nana more ministers, we want more, we want more, we want moreoooooo. Abooooowa!

  • AAziz Issahaku 7 years ago

    You are hypocrites

  • sonkrolo 7 years ago

    YOU YRE A HYPOCRITE YOU WERE SHOUTING MAHAMA´S MINISTERS ARE TOO LARGE NOW LOOK AT YOU 110 AND MORE TO COME . WHERE WILL YOU GET MONEY TO PAY THEM?

  • Dessie 7 years ago

    Mustapha:have no idea of government big government ,big expenditure,limited resources ,low productivity,which leads to failure

  • Churchill 7 years ago

    Does efficiency matter with huge number before you can deliver compentent indeed

  • HONYADZI ANDREWS 7 years ago

    Friends and family government.
    Ghanaians don't see anything yet, Koforidua market women have started demonstration on INCREAMENT of stores ., every NPP follower must get appointment, Tweaaaaaaa

  • dumebi 7 years ago

    The arrogance has started. We are cursed by npp.

  • General 7 years ago

    One Albino, three proper deputies.

  • Malcolmx 7 years ago

    Huge government is a huge financial burden on us Ghanaians Mr Hamid. NPP is shooting itself in the foot.

  • NPPigs 7 years ago

    This is what you get when you're standing on the sidelines and assuming you can do better than those those on the field. No these NPP idiots are doing try-and error. I call it fidgeting.

    Now let me lecture this idiot who ...
    read full comment

  • niinoi 7 years ago

    Look at a fool.

  • kimathi 7 years ago

    Diabolic npp party... Posterity will judge you all.

  • NPPigs 7 years ago

    Small boy you don't know the thing. Am teaching you the thing. Size matters because it is a input resource. It comes at a cost; monthly salary, Bungalows, SUVs, free Petrol, free healthcare, free travel expense,m etc. It real ...
    read full comment

  • paul ahadzie, nick, bastard dog 7 years ago

    hiiiiii kuffour am soo much proud of you but one thing after the election how manny vote did you win i want to know you know politics is very difficult to handel you know ok akkuffour addo want to be part of the candidate pre ...
    read full comment

  • Emmak 7 years ago

    Mr Hamid, your justification here does not make any sense. You are defending indefensible! The ministers are just too much. This is very disappointing from this young regime.

  • one luv. 7 years ago

    U told us u will cut the size n listen to what u are telling us now ,we live to see.remember there is judgment after this life, again anyone who liers in Islam is a hypocrite n hypocrites will go to hell I think u know that. ...
    read full comment

  • Sammy 7 years ago

    Mustapha, you are a fool, Are they not going to be Paid? Purely nonsense.

  • Bismarck 7 years ago

    I think we should match what the vision of the government for the next 4 years against the human resources it needs to accomplish them. We hare worried about salaries, but not what we want to achieve. slow down on the governm ...
    read full comment

  • Ama 7 years ago

    Did y'all slow down on Mahama?What is good for the goose...

  • paul ahadzie nick, bastard dog 7 years ago

    politics are very strange you see durring the politics day time paul ahadzie was only fooling around i dont know why with mistakes sent message on ghanawed comment why in mommy dey worry am or what he spelt poul instead to sp ...
    read full comment

  • Ato 7 years ago

    Just remember the day you were 'weeping' for Ghana. Now you turn round and defend the indefensible. # the hipocrisy that is killing our motherland!

  • Bb 7 years ago

    Efficiency is a function of size

  • Ugly akufo addo 7 years ago

    He is already a failure. Useless oldman

  • JKMo 7 years ago

    What was the record of the Kofour govt that Hamid guy was talking about?

  • SIMPLY GEORGE 7 years ago

    Eloquently, Mustapha Hamid is quite wizardry but been eloquent do not necessarily mean that one is intelligent. I personally admire the "Ofri Jato" boy for his eloquency but my problem with him, is his inability to talk sense ...
    read full comment

  • Imoro Fuseini 7 years ago

    You see their lies Prz Nana will fail they have come to steal Ghanaians we have seen u all . .Govrnt of families n friends .When u were in opposition u were insulting Prz Mahama of having many ministers . Your days n lies i ...
    read full comment

  • Yussif 7 years ago

    Thank God Ghanaians knew of this day that's why they voted massively for the president and his parliamentarians so that walking out of parliament does not affect the npp in anyway,So npp go ahead and approve your programs wit ...
    read full comment

  • NANA AKUFFO-ADDO IS CONFUSED!! 7 years ago

    NANA IS CONFUSED!! OR IS IT FORCES OF DARKNESS WORKING AGAINST HIM SO NO ONE SUCCEEDS?? SO GHANA DOES NOT SUCCEED AND AFRICA NEVER SUCCEEDS?? I AM ALMOST WEEPING. LORD HAVE MERCY!! INSTEAD OF REDUCING SIZE OF GOVERNMENT, NANA ...
    read full comment

  • Patriot 7 years ago

    Why do you refer to ministers and MPs as 'honourable' when they are supposed to serve the people?What is 'honourable' about them?Are they elected to be worshipped by those who elected them?It is disgraceful referring to them ...
    read full comment

  • Papa Alajo 7 years ago

    Fool you complain when is the NDC but you guys always have the large number of ministers nd you always have away of defending it steelers.

  • Ceo- Bronx, NY 7 years ago

    Please Information Minister...the size of government really matters because they are going to be paid by the tax payers money..come on!!!!! Politicians are all the same...Alhaji Bature of Al hajj newspaper fame is really righ ...
    read full comment

  • Ceo- Bronx, NY 7 years ago

    I concur...perfectly right... U hit the nail on the head...

  • truth 7 years ago

    no wonder folks are pissed off with the education sector!

  • King deed 7 years ago

    Efficiency can be likened to absolute advantages meaning government can produce a product or service using a smaller number of inputs and/or using a more efficient process than other entities producing the same product or ser ...
    read full comment

  • Kwesi 7 years ago

    Instead of addressing issue this fool is misconducting himself delving into cheap political talking points.
    Look at his body language. Minister of communication indeed!

  • Seriously 7 years ago

    If they were all being paid Ghc 500 a month without any allowances, would u have said sizes doesn't matter?
    All u do up there is torment the low income earners with taxes for your fuels

  • Seriously 7 years ago

    Taxes without expenditures

  • Kitiki 7 years ago

    .. and also the basic definitions of and differences between EFFECTIVENESS, EFFICIENCY.

    Some "we have the men" that! Ghana is doomed.

  • Zargon 7 years ago

    This fool doesn't even now the word and how to put together the right words to describe his stupidity

  • Kitiki 7 years ago

    Wrong! Effectiveness is.
    But efficiency a function of output divided by input. The number of ministers is clearly an input and we are yet to see their
    achievements to enable us calculate their efficiency. I doubt if their a ...
    read full comment

  • Accra 7 years ago

    Look at that mumu

  • Ato0 7 years ago

    These are the sort of people who will bring this government down. They think we are all fools. Where in this world does size translate to efficiency? What about the animal called down sizing? Is down sizing not about efficien ...
    read full comment

  • Igp aka OL'Roger. 7 years ago

    Nana hands down. Enough!! This business of governmence should not be about jobs for the boys/girls Can somebody tell the Presidente the size of Dr. Kwame Nkreumah's Ministers then? Achieving alot with few resources - that is ...
    read full comment