Minority boycott approval of the eighth parliament
The decision follows the vetting of some four Deputy Minister nominees whose approval or otherwise was contended by the Minority.
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The Minority in Parliament is asking the Majority to brace up and tolerate its action henceforth following what it says is an act of insincerity exhibited to their side by Chairman of the appointments committee, Joseph Osei-Owusu.
It follows the vetting of some four deputy minister nominees whose approval or otherwise was contended by the minority. The minority argues chairman of the committee and majority members on the committee decided to vet the four at their blindside on a day declared as green Ghana day when members had visited their constituencies to partake in the exercise.
They thus boycotted the approval of the eighth report of the committee by walking out.
Briefing the media after their walkout, a minority member of the committee and MP for North Tamale, Alhassan Suhuyini contends the majority have lost their opportunity to build consensus with their side.
“As members of the minority and parliament, believe that they did that so out of disrespect and not just to us rather disrespect the Speaker of parliament and we hope that the Speaker will request the committee to revert these nominees," he stressed.
“The House needs to consider that as the minority, we will not be part of the session that will be taken on the 11th of June when we were busily supporting government’s program of greening Ghana as directed by the Speaker and we think that as people continue to talk about the need for us to build consensus and work together.
“these are examples of a group of people who every step of the way making difficult for us to build the needed census for this House to work smoothly,” he stated
Lawyer and MP for Abuakwa South, Samuel Atta Akyea reacted to the minority presser by Suhuyini, stating the business of government should run and it there is the need to cooperate with the.
we should rather find out from them if what they’ve done violates Act 94. They should answer, he said
“I should rather say that there can be situations in which the appointments committee might not sit and even vet as we think we’re doing. The appointment committee might say that brings us the fact and let’s run the Act of Article 94 and apart from that we do it for public consumption," he explained.
