{"id":290843,"date":"2017-02-03T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=290843"},"modified":"2017-02-03T06:22:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T06:22:19","slug":"parliament-to-approve-second-batch-of-ministerial-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=290843","title":{"rendered":"Parliament to approve second batch of ministerial nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament is expected to approve the report of the Appointments Committee on the second batch of ministerial nominees from President Nana Akufo-Addo, later today [Friday].<\/p>\n<p>The list of Ministerial nominees awaiting approval include Dr. Anthony Osei Akoto, Otiko Djaba, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Joseph Kofi Adda among others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ministerial-Vetting-52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-289727\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Ministerial-Vetting-52.jpg\" alt=\"ministerial-vetting-52\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the exception of Gender Minister-nominee, Otiko Djaba who seemed to have incurred the wrath of the minority over some comments she made about Former President Mahama during the campaign, all the other nominees are expected to be approved by Parliament by consensus.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_289463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-289463\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Otiko-Djaba-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-289463\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Otiko-Djaba-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Gender Minister nominee, Otiko Djaba\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-289463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gender Minister nominee, Otiko Djaba<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All the 12 nominees expected to be presented before the House were vetted this past week.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo has already sworn in 12 of the 36 persons he nominated as ministers for various portfolios after their approval by Parliament\u2019s Appointments Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of nominees set for approval<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister for Works and Housing, Samuel Atta Akyea<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Joseph Kofi Adda<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Communications, Ursula Owusu Ekuful<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Railway Development, Joe Ghartey<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Ignatius Baffuor Awuah<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Transport, Kweku Ofori Asiamah<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, John Peter Amewu<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development, Dan Kweku Botwe<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Environment, Science and Technology, Professor Kwabena Frimpong-Boateng<\/p>\n<p>Minister for Roads and Highways, Kwesi Amoako Atta<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Duke Mensah Opoku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament is expected to approve the report of the Appointments Committee on the second batch of ministerial nominees from President Nana Akufo-Addo, later today [Friday]. The list of Ministerial nominees awaiting approval include Dr. Anthony Osei Akoto, Otiko Djaba, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Joseph Kofi Adda among others. With the exception of Gender Minister-nominee, Otiko Djaba who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[3,270,3247],"class_list":["post-290843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-parliament","tag-ministerial-vetting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}