Accusations that the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government is bloated have been debunked by Richard Ahiagbah, the NPP's director of communications.

He claims that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) members are behind this narration in an effort to harm the government's reputation with Ghanaians.

According to Richard Ahiagbah, who was speaking on JoyNews' NewsFile show, Akufo-Addo has drastically cut the size of his administration, and for the first time in Ghana's history, there are no regional ministers.

“From the first term till now, you will agree with me that the size of government tremendously has been reduced.

“This is the one time in our history where we don’t have deputy regional ministers, for the first time we have that, so there are significant concessions made in that direction.

“There is his disinformation by the NDC… they are just interested in creating the impression in the minds of people for them to say that the size of government should be cut,” he said.

The NPP communication director also noted that the number of appointees in the country currently are needed to help the president achieve his objectives.

“We shouldn’t overlook the fact that there’s a mandate given the president, he needs a team to do it… if he does not deliver, he cannot come and say it was because his budget was reduced,” he said.

He added that the government has also cut its expenditure to the extent that ministers who are also members of Parliament are only being paid as MPs.