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January 29, 2025
Activist Oliver Barker-Vormawor has apologized to the Appointment Committee and promised to pull down his social media post that has generated a lot of brouhaha.
According to him what he posted, “So all the monies the ministerial appointees are being asked to pay to the Appointment Committee just to get approval, are those ones not affected by ORAL? Strange Republic” was not intended to disparage the Committee; but was quick to point out that the second post, “NDC members on the vetting Committee take money from Mahama’s ministerial nominees before approving them, the Deputy Speaker must submit himself to ORAL”, was not done by him.
After almost two hours of back and forth at the committee, he noted that he will not do anything to disparage Benard Ahiafor, Chairman of the Appointment Committee and that the second post was fake not done by him.
“Again, I am not an NDC member, I am CPP. When I was making the post, I was referring to information I have heard and also to allegations that come up often against this committee. The post was intended to reach out to those who were reaching out to me that there should be a process by which they submit themselves.”
I did not pull down the post so that originality will be there. The Committee chair has to interject to ask Oliver not to make a long statement and urged him not to read the statement but proceed to apologize.
Oliver thus apologized saying, “I apologize, my words have been twisted that is why I have not deleted it, I am happy to pull it down”.
He was also advised to do a disclaimer of what he said and provide the committee with the apologies in the various medium he published them.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com