President John Kufuor has dismissed criticisms that he is running a government of nepotism, whereby high and leading positions in government are only given to close friends and family associates, reports The Daily Guide.

“All the people I have chosen to form the core of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government are people with proven qualities who come from all parts of the country” the President said, adding that he has the absolute confidence in the people chosen to help salvage the country from economic malaise and abject poverty.

Addressing a large number of people at Kukuom, his first point of call during his just-ended four-day visit to the Brong-Ahafo Region, President Kufuor said he has carefully and painstakingly fixed a government that will have a national character to take care of everyone’s need.

“It is therefore not true that I have been nominating my friends and family members to hold top government appointments”.