The Member of Parliament for Bodi, Sampson Ahi has criticised President Akufo-Addo's recent cabinet reshuffle, arguing that it violates the constitution by excluding ministers from the Western North Region.

Mr. Ahi pointed out that the reshuffle left no one in cabinet to represent the Western North Region.

He explained that the constitution of Ghana demands of the president to consider regional balance when reshuffling his cabinet.

“We are not happy. The chiefs and the elders and people of the Western North are not happy. We want to believe that the president in the coming days will rectify this mistake. It’s a huge mistake and I’m not sure he would want this to stand. So we are drawing his attention that the people of Western North are not happy with what has happened.”

"Mr. Ahi noted that the only person from the Western North Region in the previous cabinet was Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, the former Minister for Environment, Science and Technology

According to him, Dr. Afriyie was sacked from his position as minister and replaced by someone from a different region.

“So we were thinking that having sacked Dr. Kwaku Afriyie from Western North, he will appoint another person from the Western North to replace him but after going through the list we realised that nobody came from the Western North who was asked to replace Dr Kwaku Afriyie.”

“And also when you go through the deputy ministers list, we don’t have anybody nominated to be a deputy minister from the Western North Region. So in effect, we don’t have reps in the current architecture of Nana Addo’s government and I think this is not right. The right thing must be done. If it is an oversight the president should do the right thing. The people of the Western North are not happy.”