Minority Members of Parliament serving on the Appointments Committee have boycotted the vetting of some Deputy Ministers-designate.
They boycotted the sitting on Wednesday April 4 during the vetting of some Deputy Ministers-designate.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for North Tongu and a member of the committee, said the leadership of the committee had gone against the timetable for the vetting process without recourse to the Minority side of the house, a situation he felt was disrespectful and would not afford them the time to do due diligence on the nominees.
He told Accra FM’s parliamentary correspondent, Richard Appiah, on Wednesday April 5 in an interview: “Even if you have genuine reasons for changing the timetable or the schedule, at least you should have called us, the other side, to discuss how we can also amend our programmes to suit the new schedule. This will afford us the opportunity to find out how we can do due diligence and the background investigations on the nominees, but they did not do this.
“They are just rushing everybody through the exercise without recourse to due diligence and background checks. Article 79, Article 94 of the constitution have been put aside because they just want to form their government immediately. We don’t want to be part of it, we don’t know the agenda they have set to achieve for which reason they are rushing through the process. We will leave it to the good people of this country to judge.
“We want to do a good job, diligently, efficiently, and thoroughly so that at the end of the day the constitution would have been respected and we will be seen to be doing a good job.
“Ghanaians did not vote for us to do a shoddy job; they voted for us to do the job according to law and in the proper way, carrying out our mandate efficiently through due diligence.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
