The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has terminated the appointments of more than 100 employees who were recruited in 2024, citing probation-related contractual provisions as the basis for the dismissals.
Accra-based Asaase News, confirmed that the affected staff received formal termination letters on Thursday, 19 June 2025.
The notices, signed by Mrs Lucy Sasu, Head of Human Resource and Capacity Development at the central bank, referred to the unsatisfactory completion of the required six-month probationary period.
“In accordance with the terms of your contract of employment, a satisfactory six (6) month probationary period was to be completed. Management regrets to inform you that your appointment cannot be confirmed,” the letter stated.
The termination takes effect from today, Monday, June 23, 2025. Affected employees will receive one month’s salary in lieu of notice and have been directed to return all bank property to the Human Resource Department by the same date.
The dismissals appear to form part of a wider wave of job terminations across state institutions following the change in government in January 2025.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Tafo, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, drew public attention to the development via social media, writing: “The termination of appointments continues unabated, with some BOG workers receiving dismissal letters today.”
So far, the Bank of Ghana’s leadership has not issued any public statement beyond the individual notices served to affected employees. It remains unclear whether further rounds of terminations are imminent.
This development follows an earlier directive from the Chief of Staff at the Office of the President, Julius Debrah, who, on 11 February 2025, barely a month after President John Mahama assumed office, ordered the annulment of all public sector appointments and recruitments made after 7 December 2024.
In the letter, which was addressed to all heads of government institutions, Mr Debrah stated that such appointments did not comply with established good governance standards and were inconsistent with the administration’s policy on end-of-tenure employment decisions.
“Consistent with government pronouncements in relation to near-end-of-tenure appointments and recruitment, I wish to bring to your attention that all appointments and recruitment made in the Public Services of Ghana after 7 December 2024 are not in compliance with established good governance practices and principles,” the letter noted.
Observers see the ongoing dismissals as a continuation of the new administration’s efforts to assert control over state institutions and reverse last-minute decisions made by the previous government.
