PARLIAMENT at its sitting yesterday approved all but one of the nominations for ministerial and deputy ministerial positions.
Those approved are Mr Enoch Teye Mensah, of Employment and Social welfare; Martin Amidu, the Interior; John Akologu Tia, Information, and Alban Bagbin, Water Resources, Works and Housing.
The rest are John Gyetuah, the presidency; Moses Mabengba, Bukari Northern Region, and Inusah Abdulai Fuseini, Deputy Minister of Energy.
The Appointment Committee has decided that Mr Mahama Ayariga’s appointment as Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry should be put on hold and considered in a separate report to be submitted to Parliament.
The committee, chaired by Edward Doe Adjaho, First Deputy Speaker said: “The committee is satisfied that the nominees have fully met the requirements of the constitution and therefore respectfully recommends their nomination to the House for approval”.
Minority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu (NPP Suame) said all the nominees exhibited good understanding of the problems in the sector ministries they were going to and had intelligently proffered solutions to them.
He said the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) had also done due diligence on the nominees by checking on their backgrounds, and were convinced that, “there are no skeletons in their cupboards”.
Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said most of the nominees were also parliamentarians who had been representing their people in Parliament for a number of years.
“If they had not been behaving well, and were not doing their work well, the people they represented for years, would have thrown them out of Parliament long ago,” he said.
The minority leader dispelled comments by some people, that, the Appointment Committee treated its own, especially those the president nominated from the leadership of Parliament with kid gloves.
He quoted Article 78 (1) of the constitution which stipulates that the president should nominate most of his ministers from Parliament, and added that those who were nominated had considerable working experience and therefore needed no serious grilling as most people expected.
Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu denied that the committee refused to approve Mr Ayariga because they wanted to impugn President Mills’ integrity, as allegedly bandied about by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, deputy Minister of Information.
He praised Mr Bagbin for courageously admitting that, the controversial Chinery Hesse Committee’s report on the emoluments of former President Kufuor and Parliamentarians was duly approved by the previous Parliament and hoped the admission would put to rest, the raging controversies surrounding the issue.
Those approved are Mr Enoch Teye Mensah, of Employment and Social welfare; Martin Amidu, the Interior; John Akologu Tia, Information, and Alban Bagbin, Water Resources, Works and Housing.
The rest are John Gyetuah, the presidency; Moses Mabengba, Bukari Northern Region, and Inusah Abdulai Fuseini, Deputy Minister of Energy.
The Appointment Committee has decided that Mr Mahama Ayariga’s appointment as Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry should be put on hold and considered in a separate report to be submitted to Parliament.
The committee, chaired by Edward Doe Adjaho, First Deputy Speaker said: “The committee is satisfied that the nominees have fully met the requirements of the constitution and therefore respectfully recommends their nomination to the House for approval”.
Minority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu (NPP Suame) said all the nominees exhibited good understanding of the problems in the sector ministries they were going to and had intelligently proffered solutions to them.
He said the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) had also done due diligence on the nominees by checking on their backgrounds, and were convinced that, “there are no skeletons in their cupboards”.
Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said most of the nominees were also parliamentarians who had been representing their people in Parliament for a number of years.
“If they had not been behaving well, and were not doing their work well, the people they represented for years, would have thrown them out of Parliament long ago,” he said.
The minority leader dispelled comments by some people, that, the Appointment Committee treated its own, especially those the president nominated from the leadership of Parliament with kid gloves.
He quoted Article 78 (1) of the constitution which stipulates that the president should nominate most of his ministers from Parliament, and added that those who were nominated had considerable working experience and therefore needed no serious grilling as most people expected.
Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu denied that the committee refused to approve Mr Ayariga because they wanted to impugn President Mills’ integrity, as allegedly bandied about by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, deputy Minister of Information.
He praised Mr Bagbin for courageously admitting that, the controversial Chinery Hesse Committee’s report on the emoluments of former President Kufuor and Parliamentarians was duly approved by the previous Parliament and hoped the admission would put to rest, the raging controversies surrounding the issue.
