Published by Inusah Dondaliya
Date: 6th May 2026
Member of Parliament for Gushegu, Hon. Lawyer Hassan Tampuli, has called for the removal of the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Linda Ocloo, from office, saying her continued stay in office amounts to an endorsement of the unfortunate comment she made about the geographic north.
Visiting the Ramsar site during a demolition exercise, Madam Linda Ocloo made comments suggesting that some people had been transferred to the North as punishment for their role in the construction of illegal structures at the Ramsar site.
The Minister has come under a barrage of attacks especially from the citizenry from the North since making the statement compelling her to render an unqualified apology to the people affected by her comments.
However, wading into the issue in a Facebook post today 6th May 2026, the Gushegu Lawmaker, noted that the North is not a zoo nor a cursed land, stressing that Transfers in the public service are normally made to achieve a certain balance and inject new efficiency, new dynamism, and innovation in the workings of government institutions.
He, therefore called on President John Mahama to sack the minister with immediate effect over her comments.
Below is the full statement of the MP
It is quite clear that the continued stay in office of this Minister will amount to nothing but an endorsement of the unfortunate comment she made about the geographic north of our great country Ghana and all the indigenes of the entire five regions of the north.
The north is not a zoo, nor is it a cursed land. Transfers in the public service are normally made to achieve a certain balance and inject new efficiency, new dynamism, and innovation in the workings of government institutions.
Certainly, any insinuation that incompetence earns a public/civil servant an automatic transfer to the ‘north’ is also highly provocative as if we from the north are undeserving of the best our nation can offer.
I call on the President of the Republic, H. E. John Dramani Mahama (himself a Northerner) to dismiss Hon. Linda Ocloo with immediate effect. She should not be given the undeserved opportunity to resign.
