Member of Parliament (MP) for Ofoase Ayirebi and Deputy Minister designate for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah will face the Appointments Committee of Parliament for his turn at vetting.
Mr Oppong Nkrumah; Deputy Minister of Defence designate, Major (rtd) Derrick Oduro; and Deputy Minister for Water and Sanitation, Patrick Yaw Boamah, among five others, form part of the last batch of President Nana Akufo-Addo's 110 ministerial nominees and their vetting would pave way for the president to have the full complement of his government.
However, their vetting will likely be overshadowed by the decision of the Minority members of the Appointments Committee to boycott today's vetting.
Parliament is set to go on recess on Friday, April 7 ahead of this year's Easter celebrations and it had been expected that complete the vetting of ministerial nominees today [Thursday], April 6.Â
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, the House should have originally risen after its business Wednesday, April 5 and thus there were not going to take part in any of the vetting processes of the eight remaining nominees.
Mr Iddrisu later explained that vetting eight nominees in just a day will put undue pressure on the committee and lead to a shoddy work considering that the due diligence they have to conduct on nominees hence their decision to boycott the process.
"The CVs don't  get to us early. We need to do background checks and due diligence and I think that they must allow us to do a diligent job. We would not be stampeded into doing this", he stated in an interview with Joy News' Joseph Opoku Gakpo.
Mr Iddrisu's deputy, James Klutse Avedzi supported this point saying that "in the United States, sometimes they vet government nominees [one person could be vetted] for two or three days. Vetting eight people in a day, I don't know what kind of vetting is that. I don't know what kind of questions that are going to be posed. What is the rush?", he stated.
They, therefore, have decided to vote against the approval of the nominees to be vetted today and six others vetted yesterday when the committee presents the report to the Houe for approval.
But Deputy Majority Chief Whip, Matthew Nyindam disagrees with the arguments of the Minority saying "there is nothing wrong with that".
"If you go back to check our records, they did seven some days, they did six some days. And if you can do seven a day and you can do thorough job, you mean the one person will not let you do thorough job, is that what they are saying?", he asked.
Though the Majority is expected use their numbers to approve the nominations, the Minority's boycott has definitely added to the controversies that have surrounded the work of the Appointments Committee this term.
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