News:
February 10, 2025
A member of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Minority side Kwame Antwi Anyimadu said he overheard the Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon Alban Sumana Bagbin giving directives for the Committee investigating the vetting chaos not to hold public hearing.
According to him he agrees with the directives of the Speaker and what the Committee is doing currently, the Committee is not conducting serious investigations, hence the reason he participated in the workings of the Committee once and later sought guidance from the leadership of the Minority.
At a press conference, he argued that, “if you call ten witnesses; according to the committee, twenty-five members have been identified and were to be invited. If all of them are to seat together and you call them one by one to speak to the hearing of the others, you are not conducting any investigation”.
Mr Anyimadu raised concerns with the manner the investigation is being conducted, stating that “the moment we take this as a public enquiry, any person, if you ask him to leave the committee room and go to the next room, he can go to the next room and watch television and observe whatever we are doing. The process of doing it is not the right thing. I have raised it and some of the members have also raised it”.
“We were not sure especially, when the Majority Leader has to come and testify before the Committee in public, I had to get up to seek clearance from the leadership of our caucus and we have to communicate to you that this is why you are not seeing us at the public hearing after our first appearance”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com