MINORITY BYCOT VETTING OF DEPUTY ENERGY MINISTER OF STATE DESIGNATE 

The Vetting of  H.E. the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo nominee, Hon Herbert Krapah for consideration and approval by Parliament as Minister of State at the Ministry of Energy saw the absence of the minority NDC members on the appointment committee.

During the Appointment Committee sitting to consider the public hearing of the minister designate, Herbert Krapa as minister of state at the ministry of Energy the NDC minority boycotted.

 The deputy ranking member who double as minority leader,  Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah announced that the minority will not be part of a hasty decision to vet and approve the minister who is a deputy minister already at the Ministry.

According to him,the majority side of the house is  not circumventing due process required in the vetting of the nominee for the position of Minister of State at the Ministry of Energy.

“Our standing parliamentary practice requires that persons nominated for appointment of the president shall be published in the newspaper for national circulation to request for memorandum or a representation from the public,which means the public need to be given reasonable time to submit their memorandum”he highlighted 

“unfortunately as we speak this morning,this has not happened,this request has totally been breached the Minority is lost about the rationale for the illicit haste on the back of the majority,particularly since the nominee is already a deputy minister at the ministry”he said

The Ellembelle legislator further lamented that the minority took a strong push back to call off the vetting of the same nominee just a day after the referral by the Speaker to the Appointment Committee to ensure that the appointment was advertised.

“The minority wished to serve the notice that it will not be part of any hasty process deliberately designed by the majority to deny the people 3of Ghana participation in the work of the Appointment Committee and Ghana’s democracy”he emphatically stated.

Report by PKB