{"id":53156,"date":"2014-10-02T19:10:01","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T19:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=53156"},"modified":"2014-10-02T19:42:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T19:42:11","slug":"spio-garbrah-lied-to-appointment-committee-minority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/spio-garbrah-lied-to-appointment-committee-minority-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Spio-Garbrah lied to Appointment Committee – Minority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minority of Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has accused the Minister of Trades and Industry, Dr. Ekow Spio-Garbrah of lying to the Appointment Committee of Parliament about his secondary school education.<\/p>\n

Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu said investigations showed that the Spio-Gabrah’s account that he entered secondary school\u00a0at age 9 was not true.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we \u00a0probed further it came to the fore that the nominee had been repeated in Primary school a couple of times so it was most untrue the message he transmitted to the House,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”Fwlk5ivfU4PepDCtK3Q3q5T90ktGxSnt”]He said Spio-Grabrah himself even acknowledged that he was indeed repeated a couple of times.<\/p>\n

Addressing the House on Tuesday\u2019s sitting, the Minority Leader said\u00a0 Spio-Garbrah only boasted about issues that were untrue.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t come before Parliament boasting about something that is factually untrue. Mr. Speaker, if this is not an indictment on other Ministers of State, I don\u2019t see what else will constitute an indictment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Minority Leader in Parliament also criticized Spio-Grabrah over what he termed, “the nominee\u2019s seeming arrogant posture.”<\/p>\n

Contributing to a debate shortly before the nominee was approved by the House, the Minority Leader catalogued a number of instances during the vetting process where the nominee seemed to have behaved arrogantly.<\/p>\n

Although he seconded the motion for Spio-Grabrah to be approved as Trades Minister, the Minority Leader urged the nominee to be humble when dealing with his colleagues and subordinates at the new Ministry.<\/p>\n

\u201cMr. Speaker certainly one must exude confidence but over -amplication of ones own successes and even perceived successes certainly would amount or perhaps translate to egocentrisim and self conceit and even arrogance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are little matters that as a House we should concern ourselves with because the person is going to superintend over a very big ministry to which huge allocations would be made every year and if a person is found not be truthful with little matters, we should be careful making the person superintend over huge responsibilities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Appointment Committee after vetting the former Minister of Communications under the erstwhile Rawlings adminstration approved by consensus,<\/strong><\/span><\/a> the nomination of Spio-Gabrah as the Minister for Trade and Industry on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A report <\/span>signed by the chairman of the committee, Ebo Barton-Oduro, indicated that: \u201cthe Appointment Committee is satisfied that the nominee is suitable to be appointed to the position to which he has been nominated.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Spio-Garbrah was among the newly appointed Ministers in President John Mahama\u2019s ministerial reshuffle in June.<\/p>\n

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By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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