A member of the NPP National Communications Team, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has defended President John Dramani Mahama’s decision to dissolve the governing boards of nine state-owned enterprises and public institutions.
According to him, the President has the authority to remove existing board members and appoint individuals he believes can help his administration deliver on its mandate.
Mr Aboagye said the focus should not be on the personalities appointed to the various boards but on whether the government is able to achieve tangible results for Ghanaians.
“I don’t think we should even waste our time. Ultimately, we expect the government to deliver. Who they choose to sit where to get it done, that’s their business anyway,” he said on Newsfile on JoyNews.
President Mahama, on September 2, 2026, dissolved the boards of nine state-owned enterprises and public institutions with immediate effect.
The institutions affected by the directive operate across key sectors of the economy, including petroleum, mining, housing, infrastructure, banking and sports.
While the decision has generated political discussion, Mr Aboagye suggested that the performance of some of the dissolved boards did not justify retaining them.
He questioned what he described as the limited contribution of several of the boards to the management and performance of the institutions under their oversight.
“In any case, we have already known that most of these boards are not doing anything. They are not giving us anything,” he said.
His comments effectively shift the debate from the dissolution of the boards to the responsibility of the Mahama administration to ensure that the new appointments translate into improved performance.
Mr Aboagye maintained that once the government has chosen the people it believes can deliver its agenda, it must ultimately be judged by the results produced by the institutions under its watch.
The dissolution of the boards therefore places renewed attention on the government’s forthcoming appointments and whether the new leadership teams can improve efficiency, accountability and performance across the affected state institutions.
