Dr. Kwabena Donkor says President Akufo-Addo’s appointment of Joseph Dindiok Kpemka, a former Deputy Attorney-General, as Deputy Managing Director of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Limited Company (BOST) is illegal.
With BOST being a limited liability company, the former Minister of Power says the President has got no rights under the Constitution to make appointments for it.
He has asked President Akufo-Addo to respect the laws of the land when making appointments.
“BOST is a limited liability company and there is a procedure for appointing officers and because it is a limited liability company, appointments must be governed by the Companies Act (992). The Presidency has no business in appointing CEOs or Deputy MDs or senior officers to any limited liability company.
“There is also the SIGA Act which also does not give the Presidency any appointing powers for limited liability companies.
“There is a procedure and as a people and as a nation, we must learn to respect the law, particularly coming from the Presidency. I have a lot of respect for the President but the Presidency is getting it totally wrong,” he said on Accra-based Citi FM Saturday, May 18, 2024.
For limited liability companies, the Pru East Member of Parliament noted that it is through Annual General Meetings (AGM) that appointments are made and not executive orders or notices.
“To appoint a senior officer to a limited liability company, you have to go through the route of an AGM,” he added.
The former Tempane legislator’s appointment was announced Friday, May 17, 2024, in a letter signed by the Secretary to the President, Nana Bediatuo Asante, instructing the Minister of Energy, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh to take the “necessary steps to regularise the said appointment in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 929) and the constitution of the company.”
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