News:
November 23, 2017
Member of Parliament for Komenda /Edina /Egua/ Abirem (KEEA), Samuel Atta Mills has said it is right for substantive Ministers to come to the floor of the House to answer questions instead of substituting and asking their deputies to do that on their behalf.
He further backed his point by saying when substantive Ministers are, colleague Ministers are asked to take care not their “Deputies”.
Again deputy ministers may not know what the sector minister knows, “sometimes it is not right to ask deputy ministers to act in the minister’s capacity”.
He added that Parliament has an oversight responsibilities and ministers have to take their business with the House very serious as some ministers have made it a point to appear before the House to answer questions but come up with so many stories.
According to the KEEA legislator, even the vetting of substantive ministers are higher and different from their deputies.
“As Parliamentarians we have our ways of monitoring them, what we can do is by slashing their funding, it is becoming the practice of some Ministers and we should crack the whip”.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com