The Appointments Committee of Parliament is expected to begin vetting of ministers-designate named by President Nana Akufo-Addo today, Friday January 20.
Senior Minister-designate Yaw Osafo Marfo, National Security Minister-designate Albert Kan Dapaah, Finance Minister-designate Ken Ofori-Atta and Defence Minister-designate Dominic Nitiwul will take their turns before the committee, which will be testing their competence and expertise for their various portfolios.
Ahead of the vetting, the Member of Parliament for Bodi and a member of the committee, Samson Ahi, said the committee would do a diligent job to ensure only the best individuals are approved to assist Mr Akufo-Addo’s vision to transform the economy.
“You are living with the people, you know their history, they were your classmates and so on and so forth, so we expect people to feed the committee with some hidden information so that the committee can work with it. …If you have any issue about any of the nominees and you don’t bring it to the notice of the committee, you don’t expect the committee members to know everything. If you strongly believe that certain policies must be enrolled in certain ministries, you can bring it to the attention of the committee members so we can ask on your behalf, because all the 25 million Ghanaians will not have that opportunity, so the few of us that have the opportunity to do that on your behalf, you can channel your grievances or whatever through us. We will do diligent work and then we will play our role as Minority in parliament. The best practices all over the world is that the Minority always does a good job on such matters and so I’m certain that we will live up to expectation,” he told Class News.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
