Prez Mahama must sack the likes of Deputy A-G Barton Odro - Kweku Baako

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Malik Kweku Baako says appointees such as Deputy Attorney-General, Ebo Barton-Odro had become "bad news" and must be dropped.

He said if at all the Cape Coast MP who earned a negative reputation for saying the state had a bad case against NDC financier, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, when his boss was in court, will not be sacked, he should be reshuffled out of the A-G's department.

Mr Baako was speaking on Joy FM's news analysis programme, Newsfile, Saturday.

Mr. Baako said when the state hauled Mr Woyome before court and charged him with fraud, Mr. Barton-Odro should have resigned over his comments in his own interest and in the collective interest of the NDC and the government, “but he is still in office”.

Veering off from the call for a ministerial reshuffle, Kweku Baako, also advised President Mahama to move into the Flagstaff House.

He said the President might not necessarily reside in the splendid edifice, but he could run government business from the Flagstaff House which was put up in 2007 by the Kufuor administration to serve as the seat of government.

Kweku Baako expressed surprise that almost four years after the NDC won the 2008 elections, the late President Mills refused to occupy the structure.

The late President instead preferred to operate from the Osu Castle on the grounds that he needed clearance from his security advisers who had raised concerns over his safety in the facility.

Kweku Baako’s suggestion that the President should move into the Flagstaff House was upheld by co-panelist Mr Rashid Pelpuo, the Deputy Majority Leader of Parliament, who said the Castle which represents the story of slavery, “must no longer be used as the seat of government”.

“The President should authorize the security capos to fix the security challenges for him to move in to the Flagstaff House”, the NDC MP for Wa Central underscored.

He noted “it will not be good for President Mahama to drive past the Geese Park, where his former boss had been buried, every day when he is going to work at the Castle”.

Mr Pelpuo, however, believes the character of President Mahama which he said are akin to that of his predecessor will make him the better candidate to win the December elections.

Why I love Nigerians–Yvonne Chaka Chaka

Low capacity of staff of AG’s dep't cause of flaws in international transactions – Parliament