Kufuor Sidelines J. H. Mensah

...ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT TEAM DISSOLVED
Senior Minister, Joseph Henry Mensah, has been sidelined from major decision making by President Kufuor and now parades the corridors of power as a ceremonial Senior Minister.

According to THE INDEPENDENT, the Senior Minister has even lost his job as head of the Government’s Economic Management Team. Checks at the presidency have revealed that the President has dissolved the Economic Management Team close to some months ago without a drop of hint to the Senior Minister.

Investigations by THE INDEPENDENT confirmed that the President has not been happy with bouts of complaints made against the Senior Minister by some members of cabinet.

Some Minister’s that the Senior Minister, who was supposed to oversee the work of colleague Ministers, sometimes over scrutinised his charges and ended up embarrassing them.

However, Presidential Spokesperson, Kwabena Agyepong in a telephone chat on the dissolution of the Team, responded tersely, “not that I know” and promised to get back to the paper later. But as at press time, his response had not come in yet.