President Mahama moves to reduce government spending, scraps 7 ministries Ghana President John Mahama has scraped the country’s ministries from 30 to 23 in a bid to cut government spending. Mahama’s decision an executive order to trim the number of government ministries was contained in a gazette dated January 9 two days after he took office. The West African country would no longer have the ministries of information, sanitation and water resources, national security, railway development, parliamentary affairs, public enterprises, and chieftaincy and religious affairs. READ ALSO: President Ruto scraps first lady’s budget after...