{"id":308139,"date":"2017-04-05T12:06:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T12:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=308139"},"modified":"2017-04-05T12:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T12:06:29","slug":"minority-mps-boycott-appointments-committee-sittings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/minority-mps-boycott-appointments-committee-sittings\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority MPs boycott Appointments Committee sittings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority members on the Appointments Committee \u00a0of Parliament have boycotted sitting following concerns that they are being overstretched.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament is expected to go on recess by Friday, April 7, however the Appointments Committee will continue vetting the remaining 50 deputy ministerial nominees named by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;onrexXSM87nA0ykJ1cltdkTOdztK4osM&#8221;]While reading Parliament\u2019s business statement in Parliament last Friday, the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, noted that the House was to rise on Friday prior to the Easter celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>But the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu strongly rejected the move.<\/p>\n<p>Haruna Iddrisu argued that, the recess should begin today [Wednesday], adding that the Appointments Committee could submit its report of the deputy ministers it had screened within the period for Parliament\u2019s approval, but the Majority Leader disagreed.<\/p>\n<p>Parliament has so far approved eleven (11) Deputy Ministers for the various sector ministries, as well as ten Deputy Regional Ministers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NPP boycotts vetting of NDC ministers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time an opposition party is boycotting vetting of Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, New Patriotic Party MPs on the Appointments Committee boycotted the vetting of ministers appointed by the then National Democratic Congress (NDC) government after they claimed that the election was not legitimately won by the NDC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey &amp; Duke Mensah Opoku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<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>The Minority members on the Appointments Committee \u00a0of Parliament have boycotted sitting following concerns that they are being overstretched. 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