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February 10, 2025
The Majority Chief Whip Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor when he appeared on Monday, February 10, 2025 before the Ad Hoc Committee investigating the chaos that occurred at the Appointment Committee said he is not proud of what occurred at the Appointment Committee sitting and takes full responsibility.
According to him others disagree that if punishment was supposed to be meted out it should not be him, but I agree in principle that you need to punish the leaders, he told the Committee.
He further told the Committee chairman Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah that consensus building failed for that night.
He also affirmed that if his counterpart was minded of his way of doing things that night, they would not have experienced the chaos, and insisted that ones they decided to disrupt and raise chairs, “what can I do, what could I have done?” He queried.
Mr. Dafeamekpor further indicated that there is a lot of learn from the public hearing of the Ad Hoc Committee and going forward Members of Parliament would be guided from whatever recommendations the Committee will give. “A lot of things need to be streamlined from now onwards”, he stated.
When the Chairman further enquire that if giving-in to the demand of the Minority side on the committee could have averted all these problems, he said “there is a reasonableness to everything; we are serving people, we had scheduled nominees for a week, it was no fault of theirs that the Wednesday, January 29, 2025, was truncated”, adding that the Wednesday program should not have affect those who were supposed to appear on Thursday, January 30, 2025. So if the Committee was adding on to their work, those originally slated for Thursday, needed to be attended to. “When you want to vary previous agreement, you do not go physical, rather we should engage” he told the Committee.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com