The Appointments Committee of Parliament will later today begin vetting for Deputy Regional ministerial nominees. Four nominees are scheduled to appear before the committee.<\/p>\n
They are Solomon Boar, Elizabeth Sackey, Eugenia Gifty Kusi and Elizabeth Agyeman for the Northern, Greater Accra, Western and Ashanti Regions respectively.<\/p>\n
The Vetting will end on Thursday after the six other nominees are vetted.<\/p>\n
The Minority in Parliament has however expressed some degree of angst in the perceived delay in the release of the list of Deputy Ministers.<\/p>\n
The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, has asked the President to quickly release the list of Deputy Ministerial nominees for the various ministries to enable the House carry out the vetting and subsequent approval as early as possible\u00a0so that a delay wouldn’t affect the activities of the chamber.<\/p>\n
Below is the full list of the deputy regional minister nominees:<\/strong><\/p>\n Upper East Region – Frank Fuseini Adongo\u00a0 (MP)<\/p>\n Upper West Region – Amidu Ishaq<\/p>\n Northern Region – Solomon Namliit Boar (MP)<\/p>\n Brong Ahafo Region\u00a0– Evans Opoku<\/p>\n Ashanti Region – Elizabeth Agyeman<\/p>\n Western\u00a0Region \u00a0-Eugenia Gifty Kusi<\/p>\n Eastern Region\u00a0– Joseph Tetteh (MP)<\/p>\n Central Region – Thomas Agyei Baffour<\/p>\n Greater Accra Region – Elizabeth Kwatsoo Tetteh Sackey<\/p>\n Volta Region – Maxwell Blagogee<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Parliament has extended the debate on the budget till Wednesday after which the various committees will scrutinize the individual budgets of various Ministries, Departments and Agencies.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Duke Mensah Opoku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Appointments Committee of Parliament will later today begin vetting for Deputy Regional ministerial nominees. Four nominees are scheduled to appear before the committee. They are Solomon Boar, Elizabeth Sackey, Eugenia Gifty Kusi and Elizabeth Agyeman for the Northern, Greater Accra, Western and Ashanti Regions respectively. The Vetting will end on Thursday after the six […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[2368,3,270,3243],"yoast_head":"\n