News:
February 27, 2025
The Appointment Committee of Ghana’s Parliament led by the Chairman, Bernard Ahiafor and seven (7) out of the eleven (11) members have recommended to the plenary that the deputy Ministers designate who were vetted on Wednesday, February 26, 2025, should be approved despite their colleagues boycotting.
They are deputy Minister designate for Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts Yussif Issaka Jajah; Alhassan Sayibu Suhuyini deputy designate for Roads and Highways; deputy Justice and Attorney General, Justice Srem-Sai; and Yusif Sulemana, deputy designate for Lands and Natural Resources.
Chairman Bernard Ahiafor after the vetting noted that to form a quorum to transact business of Parliament as well as the business of the committee, Standing Order 217 (1) is to be relied on and they have not faulted on it.
“Our colleagues in the Minority left us, we have quorum to be able to transact business within article 102 of the Constitution of Ghana. We have gotten to a state where we have to take a decision governed by article 104 of the 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana”.
Again, by that, a Committee of 11 should have more than fifty percent to be able to take a decision, and fifty percent is five point five, so it should be six and we are seven in number; we satisfy the constitutional requirement in Article 104 and took a decision on the four nominees vetted at the end of the day, he said.
“The Committee has to take a decision to recommend or not, that is where we are; so I take it that the committee is unanimously taken a decision”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com