When asked by the Minority Leader of Parliament, Afenyo-Markin, during the ministerial vetting by the Appointments Committee of Parliament on January 24, 2025, Muntaka explained that the president is the only person who can decide on whom to work with.
“What would be your own advice to anybody who will suggest that the IGP, an appointee of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who is not 60 years old and is an energetic, competent IGP, should be removed by virtue of a change in power? What would be your advice?” Afenyo-Markin asked.
Muntaka explained that he can only make suggestions to the president and not suggest who needs to be sacked.
“Definitely, there would be an assessment of all the team members. You know His Excellency President Mahama has a vision and objective for which Ghanaians have voted for him.
“All that will be reviewed in line, and those that, in the views of His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, will be helpful in assisting him to achieve that objective, especially in the national interest, I will support it.
“But I will not be able to deal with specific individuals to give assurance that this person will go or that person will stay. In fact, I don’t have that power as Minister for the Interior. I can only make a recommendation about one individual or another to His Excellency the President, and that decision is that of the president,” Muntaka said.
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