President Akufo-Addo has placed a temporary ban on all Ministers of State and their deputies at least for the next one month except travels motivated by serious medical emergencies. This will be the second of its kind since he assumed office as President of the Republic in January 2017.

It is not clear what is informing the latest decision of the President to ban all Ministers and their Deputies from traveling outside the Ghanaian jurisdiction.

However, in light of the fact that most of the President’s Ministers and Deputy Ministers are serving Members of Parliament and with the pendency of the appropriation of the 2022 budget statement and economic policy of government by Parliament, the directive of the President could be to ensure that all members of the Majority caucus in Parliament are readily available to carry out domestic and parliamentary work.