The Leadership of the Appointments Committee of Parliament has debunked media reports which suggested the rejection of three of President Akufo-Addo's Ministerial nominees.
It follows widespread speculations that the three includes Minister for Information Designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Minister Designate for Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto and Minister-Designate for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mavis Hawa Koomson have been rejected by the minority side of the Committee.
However, responding to the matter in Parliament on Tuesday Chairman of the Committee, Joseph Osei-Owusu, rejected the claim noting that the Committee's duty is only to vet nominees and make recommendations to plenary. He said it is not the duty of the Committee or any of its members to make a pronouncement on the acceptance or rejection of a notice.
“We should not take out of here matters which have not been decided by the Committee and discussed as if they are the Committee's decision. This Committee has no power to reject anybody. Our duty is to make recommendations to the house. The house may refuse or reject our recommendations. There is nothing going on here which is final. If we understand that, that will influence our discussion,” he said.
Mr Osei-Owusu however admonished members of the Committee to desist from making public pronouncements on the nomination of persons who appear before it.
“So I encourage you to stay away from public pronouncements on things that undermine the integrity of the Committee,” he added.
Ranking Member of the Committee Haruna Idrissu further clarified that about eight nominees have been asked to provide further particulars on some matters later in the week before reports on them are finalized.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com
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The distinction should be made between academic qualifications and competence. It appears that, especially, most of the NDC politicians erroneously equate competence to academic qualifications and proficiency in the english language. Hence, they don't regognize competence so as to appreciate it, and in effect, awfully underperform their political mandates. Further, they become very uneasy when they encounter their had-working and competent NPP counterparts.
ompetence is alien to the NDC as a political party otherwise the Minority side of the Appointments Committee who are NDC- members would not seek to disapprove Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Dr. Afriyie Akoto and Mrs. Koomson of their ministerial appointments.