{"id":283892,"date":"2017-01-11T14:34:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=283892"},"modified":"2017-01-11T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T14:34:40","slug":"akufo-addo-names-second-batch-of-ministerial-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/akufo-addo-names-second-batch-of-ministerial-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo names second batch of ministerial nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has nominated 12 more individuals to occupy various ministerial positions in his government.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second batch of ministerial nominees made by the President after he announced 13 others on Tuesday, January 11, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This brings to total, 25 ministerial nominees made by Nana Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>In the list of new nominees submitted to Parliament for vetting and confirmation, indicated Nana Akufo-Addo had created two new ministries and reintroduced two others that were scrapped by the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Akufo-Addo, who is expected to officially introduce the new nominees at a press conference at the flagstaff House later today has called on Parliament to effectively scrutinize all his nominees and not &#8220;rubber stamp&#8221; them in &#8220;wholesale&#8221; as qualified.<\/p>\n<p>All the nominees will be\u00a0vetted\u00a0and confirmed to serve in their respective offices as Ministers, if they are found qualified by the vetting committee of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Find the full list below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Minister for Monitoring and Evaluation &#8211; Dr Anthony Akoto Osei<br \/>\n2. Minister for Regional Reorganisation and Special Projects &#8211;\u00a0Dan Kwaku Botwe<br \/>\n3. Minister for Lands and Forestry &#8211;\u00a0John Peter Amewu<br \/>\n4. Minister for Gender and Social Protection &#8211;\u00a0Otiko Afisah Djaba<br \/>\n5. Minister for Employment and Labour Relations &#8211; Ignatius Baffour-Awuah<br \/>\n6. Minister for Transport &#8211; Kwaku Ofori Asiamah<br \/>\n7. Minister for Railways Development &#8211; Joe Nana Ghartey<br \/>\n8. Minister for Roads and Highways &#8211; Kwesi Amoako-Atta<br \/>\n9. Minister for Communications &#8211; Ursula Owusu Ekuful<br \/>\n10. Minister for Water Resources and Sanitation &#8211; Joseph Kofi Adda<br \/>\n11. Minister for Works and Housing &#8211; Samuel Atta Akyea<br \/>\n12. Minister for Environment Science and Technology &#8211; Prof Kwabena Frimpong Boateng<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Akufo-Addo has communicated to the Speaker of Parliament that he &#8220;shortly&#8221; send in his final batch of ministerial nominees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnyabor\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @jnyabor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo has nominated 12 more individuals to occupy various ministerial positions in his government. 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