{"id":291358,"date":"2017-02-05T10:45:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T10:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=291358"},"modified":"2017-02-05T10:45:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-05T10:45:21","slug":"ministerial-vetting-a-lame-duck-process-casely-hayford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=291358","title":{"rendered":"Ministerial vetting a ‘lame-duck process’ – Casely Hayford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Financial Analyst Sydney Casely Hayford, believes Parliament is only paying lip service with the vetting of ministerial nominees by its Appointments Committee.<\/p>\n

Speaking on\u00a0The Big Issue<\/strong>, he described the ongoing vetting as a ‘lame-duck’ process that hardly ever results in anyone being rejected after going through the process.<\/p>\n

\"Sydney-Casely-Hayford\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I think is that, we are going through a lame-duck process with this vetting. This vetting that we are doing and pretending like we are\u00a0posing\u00a0interesting questions is just a lame-duck exercise which has never resulted in anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you are on that deck and you are giving answers, you have\u00a0a\u00a0choice, you can either be yourself, speak\u00a0your\u00a0mind and let the chips fall where they may or you can be diplomatic enough and play the tomfoolery and say what they want to hear in order to pass through.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact of the matter is that, we are having the\u00a0vetting and the Minority always goes one side and the Majority always go the other side, and you have a lame-duck situation and you are wasting everybody\u2019s time because nobody is making any progress and then nothing has changed,\u201d\u00a0Mr.\u00a0Casely Hayford said.<\/p>\n

He noted further that, the vetting was not exposing the nominated persons with some of the questions coming off, describing them as distasteful just as the answers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThings like this are unbecoming of parliament of modern systems,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

According to Mr. Casely Hayford, \u201cwhen you look at the questions they are asking, Parliament is still stuck in some old-fashioned notion that everything we do should still be supported by the state apparatus.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By:\u00a0Delali\u00a0Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Financial Analyst Sydney Casely Hayford, believes Parliament is only paying lip service with the vetting of ministerial nominees by its Appointments Committee. Speaking on\u00a0The Big Issue, he described the ongoing vetting as a ‘lame-duck’ process that hardly ever results in anyone being rejected after going through the process. \u201cWhat I think is that, we are […]<\/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":[10,11],"tags":[1377,3,270,3247],"class_list":["post-291358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-casely-hayford","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-parliament","tag-ministerial-vetting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291358","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=291358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}