News:
January 20, 2017
Four ministerial nominees will today, Friday January 20 come face to face with the Appointment Committee of Parliament as they are vetted.
The first to take his turn will be Senior Minister designate, Hon. Yaw Osafo Marfo, followed by Kan Dapaah, who will head the Security Ministry. Finance Minister-nominee, Ken Ofori-Atta, as well as nominee for Defense, Dominic Nitiwul will then take their turns.
The Minority members on the Committee have vowed to subject the ministerial nominees to rigourous questioning, an exercise that will be in the interest of the state.
Ahead of today’s vetting the Minority side on Thursday claimed they were yet to be given the Curriculum Vitae of the Ministerial nominees a day to the beginning of their vetting.
Member of Parliament for Tamale North and a member of the minority side of the committee, Alhassan Suhuyini in an interview with CITI FM, disclosed that several efforts to secure the CVs of the nominees before their vetting commences on Friday had proven futile.
He said the delay in providing them with the CVs of the nominees is intended to frustrate them, adding that this behaviour is condemnable.
“The people of Ghana want us to ask the relevant questions especially about the caliber of people that are going to be working for them. And so, we think that it is unacceptable. We don’t want them to give us the CVs tomorrow morning when we are supposed to be vetting the nominees,” he noted.