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January 22, 2021
Ranking member on the Appointment Committee of Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu has said President Nana Akufo-Addo’s Ministerial nominees for his second term are nothing new, but just a recycled Ministers.
According to him the Minority are not obstructionist group as their colleagues opposite want Ghanaians to believe; they are positive in their thinking and believe the list of nominee Ministers submitted to the House on Thursday, January 21, 2021 deserve urgent attention.
At a press briefing on Friday, January 22, 2021 just after adjournment of the House, Mr. Haruna Iddrisu noted that within the first term, the President did not have the political courage to reshuffle his Ministers.
Again, he revealed that what strike them the most as they would interrogate it on the Committee is the creation of the Ministry of Public Enterprise, “our Ministries themselves are public enterprises, state own institutions”.
“We are ready to interrogate not just the CVs, but the previous work carried out by the presidents appointees and we would need their handing over notes, they should be made available to us, as required by Act 845 in the presidential transition Act of 2012”.
Mr. Iddrisu expressed worry over the leaving out of some key regions in the president’s cabinet, in compliance with Article 35. “We would have expected that his long list of thirty (30) Ministers, Upper East and Oti regions have no representatives same with Bono East”.
The president needs to carry the country along, he owns it a duty to unite this country; he should recognise talents, those regions have the human resources, “if you compare his list to former president Mahama’s era we were gender sensitive”, he added.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com