{"id":292048,"date":"2017-02-07T18:51:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=292048"},"modified":"2017-02-07T18:51:02","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T18:51:02","slug":"parliament-approves-otiko-by-majority-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/02\/parliament-approves-otiko-by-majority-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament approves Otiko by majority votes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Parliament has approved the minister-nominee for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba by majority votes.<\/p>\n
This follows a boycott by the minority side of the house on Tuesday [February 7, 2017], when it sat to consider the 4th report of the Appointments Committee.<\/p>\n
152 Members of Parliament voted “YES” in favour of the approval of Madam Otiko\u00a0while there were 0 “NO” votes.<\/p>\n
The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, in an earlier submission, said it stands against Otiko Djaba\u2019s approval nomination over her posturing when she appeared before the committee for vetting.<\/p>\n
The nominee was queried by some of the Minority members on the panel for describing the former president as \u201cwicked, evil and someone with a heart of the devil,\u201d but she said she still stood by those words and will not apologize for them.<\/p>\n