News:
February 11, 2021
The Minister of defense-designate, Dominic Nitiwul has denied claims that he is the one who gave orders to the military to storm Parliament on the eve of electing the Speaker of the House and the swearing in of the new Members of Parliament elect.
The military entering into the chamber was ostensibly to restore calm to the chamber as MPs-elect on the side of the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party, wanted to showcase superiority since either of them had 137 seats.
During his vetting on Thursday, 11 February 2021 by Parliament’s Appointments Committee, North Tongu Member of Parliament Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, read a story to the nominee in which a former deputy minister, Murtala Muhammed, was quoted as having claimed the Bimbilla MP ordered the soldiers to invade the house.
Mr. Nitiwul, who served as Defence Minister in President Nana Akufo-Addo’s first term, however, said: “Mr. Chairman, that’s not a true story”.
“I didn’t even have the capacity at that time, I wasn’t even minister of defense so I didn’t even have the capacity at that time to move the military. I never went to any place to go and be moving anybody.”
“The military are some of the most professional people, they and the police may take a decision to do one or two things, but they would have taken it thinking that they were doing their best to solve a situation”, he said.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com
has denied claims that he is the one who gave orders to the military to storm Parliament on the eve of electing the Speaker of the House and the swearing in of the new Members of Parliament elect.
The military entering into the chamber was ostensibly to restore calm to the chamber as MPs-elect on the side of the National Democratic Congress and the New Patriotic Party, wanted to showcase superiority since either of them had 137 seats.
During his vetting on Thursday, 11 February 2021 by Parliament’s Appointments Committee, North Tongu Member of Parliament Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, read a story to the nominee in which a former deputy minister, Murtala Muhammed, was quoted as having claimed the Bimbilla MP ordered the soldiers to invade the house.
Mr. Nitiwul, who served as Defence Minister in President Nana Akufo-Addo’s first term, however, said: “Mr. Chairman, that’s not a true story”.
“I didn’t even have the capacity at that time, I wasn’t even minister of defense so I didn’t even have the capacity at that time to move the military. I never went to any place to go and be moving anybody.”
“The military are some of the most professional people, they and the police may take a decision to do one or two things, but they would have taken it thinking that they were doing their best to solve a situation”, he said.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com