News:
June 22, 2012
Parliament on Thursday deferred the approval of 2 Deputy Minister designate after the appointment committee recommended them for approval.
The 2, Kwadwo Owusu Agyemang and Anthony Gyambiby who have being nominate to the ministry of Lands and Natural Resources and Attorney General and Minister of Justice has their approval postponed after Members of Parliament expressed reservation about certain issues that cropped up during their vetting.
While Mr. Anthony Gyambiby a retired chief state attorney was virtually given a clean bill of health by the MPS had to produce a letter as a proof of been contacted beyond his retiring age which few MPs including the MP for Manyhia, Matthew Opoku Prempeh were not satisfied with.
However the Kwaku Owusu Agyemang had his nomination objected by several MPS due to the several errors and inaccuracies in his curriculum vitae submitted to the committee and his unimpressive show of knowledge of the sector he had been nominated to when he was vetted.
Mr. Owusu admitted for instance that he did not complete his Masters Degree (MFc) course and therefore did not hold that certificate as a erroneously included in the curriculum vitae.
After presenting the committee report to the House, the minority leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu recommended the nominees for approval by consensus but the MPS disagreed.
Hon Papa Owusu Ankomah MP for Sekondi said the he was not impressed with the nominees performance and doubted if the nominee could bring any thing substantial to government as he takes office for the last six months of president Mills’s team.
“If the president id going to appoint some one to join his team in this injury time, then that person must bring substantial to the government like Rogger Miller of Cameroun in the game of football, he comes into the game and score and makes the difference, I doubt if this man will make the difference” Papa Owusu said.
MP for Techiman North Professor Christopher Ekumfi who wax not happy with the preparation of CVs which are sometimes put before the appointment committee said it must be the responsibility of the appointment authority to do due diligence on nominees and also look at their CVs to ensure that CVs that do not make sense is not presented to the appointment committee.
However the MPS Ellembelle Armah Kofi Buah stated that there may be one or two nominees who may not get it right with their CVs but are effective in the discharged of their duties if they are finally approved as ministers.
With this he called on the house to approve the nominees.
The first deputy speaker of Doe Adjaho presiding over presiding said the issue to a voice vote but that could not settle the matter as the pitch of the yes and no responds sounded the same. He then requested for papers to ballot but that process was deferred.
It is expected that the house will return to the issue on Friday’s sitting.
Kwadwo Anim/Ghanamps.gov.gh