Speaking to the media at an engagement on January 23, 2025, President Mahama said that the ministry was scrapped to help achieve his promise to reduce the size of government.
“With regards to government communications, you would notice that there is no Ministry of Information in the line-up of 23 ministries that we recently announced.
“That was partly in response to our promise to downsize government,” he said.
The president indicated that the role of the Ministry of Information, which is to disseminate information to the people of Ghana, has now been shifted to the presidency through the creation of the Minister of State in charge of communication, which is likely to be headed by
“But then it also meant that we had to be very strategic with the way we dealt with the flow of information from the government because that is critical to the success of whatever we intend to do.
"And so the structure we took was to bring information into the presidency and that is how come we have a Minister of State in charge of government communication. And then to make sure that we are able to anchor it with a string of strong communication professionals in the most critical sectors. So, that we are able to guarantee as much information flow to the public as possible,” he said.
The president disclosed that the Information Services Department (ISD), which was one of the departments of the Ministry of Information, would now be under the presidency.
“One of the things that remains to be done is to bring the Information Services Department (ISD) under the presidency and modernise that organisation from a 'civil service organisation' into a modern organisation that guarantees information flow to the public on whatever the government is doing.”
The Ministry of Information was one of seven ministries either scrapped or merged with others by President
The other ministries that were either scrapped or merged with others are the Ministry of Water and Sanitation, the Ministry of Railways, the Ministry of National Security, the Ministry of Chieftaincy, and the Ministry of Works and Housing.
Watch Mahama’s comments in the video below:
🇬🇭 President Mahama explains why the Ministry of Information was scrapped. pic.twitter.com/aQSXIbVUt0
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