NDC won't approve any nominee with a history of violence - Dr Ayine

NDC MP for for Bolgatanga East, Dr Dominic Ayine says the Appointments Committee of Parliament will be very diligent in scrutinizing persons appointed by President Akufo-Addo for ministerial positions.

He said this new Committee  will make sure appointees that have blots on their personalities and career will not be approved.

According to him, any nominee with a history of violence will be rejected by the committee.

“It mustn’t be the case that anybody the president brings even if the person is a thief or a hooligan or somebody who goes about slapping people and shooting people all over the place, the person should be vetted and approved to become a minister,” Dr Dominic Ayine said in an interview on Metro TV's "Good Evening Ghana"

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Dr Ayine, a former Deputy Attorney-General, suggested that the NPP has so many brilliant men and women who can be equally nominated to some of the positions.

“On this Appointments Committee thing, why can’t we sit together and look at the president’s nominees when they come, and see if there is a nominee who is coming with a lot of baggage; the NPP should be the first [....] to tell the president that ‘look this baggage is just too much for us to bring to parliament, the person will be rejected’,” he said

The Appointments Committee is made up of 13 equal members each from both the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Thursday, 21 January 2021, released a list of 46 ministerial nominees; he has promised a maximum of 86, down from his previous 126 or 127.