The Communication’s Director at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho, says President Mills’ recent unannounced visits to some key state institutions in the country has put the opposition New Patriotic Party in a very panicky position. According to him, the President’s move shows he is a very confident leader who is unperturbed about attempts by his detractors to shift his focus from the real task at hand. He explained to Moro Awudu on the Citi Breakfast show on Friday that the visits are meant to empower the people to do what is right. “It’s about a president who wants to be a hands-on President. Real power belongs to the workers of Ghana. The President is very passionate about fighting corruption so to the extent that [he] can move out himself and tell CEPS officials, VAT officials and IRS officials that if anybody comes to you using my name and looking for some funny exemption of a sort, kick the person in the shin, what he is doing is that he is empowering people...to do what is right,” Mr Anyidoho said. President Mills over the last couple of weeks has paid unannounced visits to some key government institutions. During the Easter break, he visited the Accra Psychiatric Hospital and on Tuesday April 6, he went to the various Revenue Collection Agencies including CEPS, IRS and the Tema Port. According to Mr Anyidoho, the unannounced visits are not a retributive move to catch people doing something wrong in their offices. Rather, he says it is meant to change the psyche of the people and to give the power back to them in a positive manner. “It is about letting people feel an integral part of the better Ghana agenda and the governance process. The extent to which the president is able to derive collective ownership of what he wants to achieve in terms of building a better Ghana, that is the only way everybody can come on board. If the President sits in the castle and continues to talk about a better Ghana and the agenda is not collectively owned from the people in Accra, Gambaga, Wiaso Sandema etc, the President’s dream will not be realized,” he said. Asked if the recent action of President Mills is meant to answer Former Presidential Spokesperson, Kwabena Agyepong who attributed the President’s lack of travel to his ill health, Mr Anyidoho said the president’s psyche about governance is different from that of Kwabena Agyepong who views governance as an opportunity to travel around. “You can pardon Kwabena Agyepong because that is the Psyche he developed working for a certain President. Every other day they were in the air flying around and of course that’s what they did for five years, six years working for president Kufuor. So Kwabena Agyepong’s psyche is one of ‘you must have a president who is on a plane every other day’. Unfortunately that is not the psyche of President Mills.” Mr Anyidoho said President Mills is committed to staying at home to solve the problems confronting the nation. He said the president will only travel when he deems it necessary. "When the need arises why not? He will have to travel; he would have to attend statutory conferences and international confabs because he is the President of the republic. He cannot run away from those ones but the truth of the matter is that a lot of work ought to be done at home...so that’s what the President has been doing. Staying at home and working and working very hard.” He said Source: citifmonline.com