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February 24, 2025
A member of the Appointment Committee in the ninth Parliament, Umar Alhassan, and Member of Parliament for Zabzugu has expressed confidence that the vetting of Deputy Ministers designate starting today, Monday, 24 February 2025, will not result in any physical fight.
“We do not expect what happened the last time to happen; if it does then it will be unfortunate”, said in an interview.
According to him things have been planned such that today, Monday, 24 February 2025, only three of the deputy Ministers designate will come before the Committee, unlike the vetting of then Ministerial Nominees in which a day was missed hence a day had to be added on which brought a lot of pressure resulting in the chaos.
He further pointed out that instead of the Minority on the Committee asking questions related to portfolio of the nominees, “they were asking trivial questions and personal questions. “I do not know if they were trying to prove issues of credibility”.
Again, if they have evidence on anything, they should put it before the person and we have standards for this kind of work; and there will always be an opportunity for opinion, as to whether we should follow what is done in the United States of America.
“Why can’t it be the Ghanaian or African way as a benchmark? This time round, we should not follow whatever is done in the US and look up to it as the standard. In the case of the US you are talking about, they are given minutes to ask their questions; you have your clock before you for that purpose. And if you do not have questions, you pass your minutes to whoever is prepared for the kill of the day; we do not have it here in Ghana they tell you three questions whiles one person has unlimited questions. Ranking has unlimited questions that is not how it is done”, he stated.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com