Comments on: Ministerial vetting a ‘lame-duck process’ – Casely Hayford https://citifmonline.com/2017/02/ministerial-vetting-a-lame-duck-process-casely-hayford/ Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz Sun, 05 Feb 2017 14:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.8 By: Obuobi Gregory https://citifmonline.com/2017/02/ministerial-vetting-a-lame-duck-process-casely-hayford/#comment-278 Sun, 05 Feb 2017 14:21:00 +0000 http://citifmonline.com/?p=291358#comment-278 The vetting committee, by the performances of the parties engaged, appears disappointing. The vetting assignment, by definition, should pose questions to elicit out of the ministers-designate the competence and the needed qualifications they need to bring to office and duty when approved. The elected ministers must give proof they can phenomenally deliver when approved for the work they have been called to do. This is hardly what we see happening. Competence resides in acquired qualifications.

You do not come to a vetting assignment with intent to settle scores for perceived vicious wrongs your party has perpetrated, which you think, need to be covered up, and which cannot ever be covered up.It is most unfortunate to see some members of the minority NDC on the vetting committee seeking just to do the wrong thing, trying to wreak vengeance where vengeance has no place even for their past misdeeds, at the vetting committee work. Their sordid NDC misdeeds, past and present, come exposed the more glaringly here, which is pathetic and disappointing. This is proof enough they do not ever qualify to be where they are. Ironically, their vetting handling is rather vetting them in the eyes of the Ghana populace. They are an error where they are now, bluntly put. They do not ever qualify to be assigned responsible national duties.

The vetting is not thorough enough, it seems to Mr. Sidney Casely Hayford.

It is not thorough enough because the questions relevant to the nature of the vetting assignment are not being put. Some of the questions that come put are misplaced for the occasion. The most glaring example is the hassling, harassing questions that came hurled at Lady Otiko Afisa Djaba. And she poured out the right answers to them, which they wouldn’t accept for what they are.

Mr. Sidney Casely Hayford appears murky to me. What does he mean by the use of the ‘lame duck process’ phrase? Is the vetting assignment failing by him?
‘…, the vetting was not exposing the nominated persons, with some of the questions coming off,’ What is the message this expression carries? Can it be explained in clearer terms?

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