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June 18, 2021
Ranking Member of the Appointment Committee, Haruna Iddrisu has urged Ghanaians to provide the committee with credible information to help facilitate their work when Ministers-designate come before them.
According to him this would assist them in their work to do a thorough job and it is for the same reason why they send memoranda inviting the public to provide them with information that has to do with criminality.
“It should not be just mere allegations but should be credible information as Article 94 of the 1992 constitution enjoins them to examine the nominees that comes before us on criminality”.
He made this remarks on Wednesday, June 16,2021 when report on the first batch of Deputy Ministers vetted came to the floor of the House for approval.
On the Deputy-designate for Lands and Natural Resources Benito Owusu-Bio, the Minority Leader noted that he had improved in legislative business on the floor of the House, and urged him to help address an issue of a PPA, where some contractors have not been paid and was raised at the committee level.
On the Deputy Finance-designate, Abena Osei-Asare, he noted that she should help the sector minister improve on revenue mobilization, and wondered why would they budget for ten dollars and go and buy COVID vaccine for 19 dollars?
He also attests to the fact that Communication digitilisation holds the key to the future, aa such we need to make ICT part of our national activities, when he touched on Minister-designate for Communications Ama Pomaa Boateng.
“Under the NDC, John Mahama extended internet facility, I find it interesting that now students are talking about extending intent facility to their campus, we extended internet to the University of Development Studies during our time”, Haruna indicated.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com