Ten nominees recommended

Spread, Friday, Feb 13, 2009
Story: Emmanuel Adu-Gyamerah & Daniel Nkrumah
THE Appointments Committee of Parliament has recommended for approval 10 out of the 22 ministerial nominees who have so far been vetted by the committee.
The nominees whose approval has been recommended by the committee include Mr Alex Tettey-Enyo, Minister designate for Education; Mr Cletus Avoka, Interior; Mr Joseph Yieleh Chireh, Local Government and Rural Development; Ms Akua Sena Dansua, Women and Children’s Affairs, and Mrs Juliana Azumah-Mensah, Tourism.
The rest are Mr Joe Gidisu, Roads and Highways; Dr Oteng Adjei, Energy; Alhaji Collins Dauda, Lands and Natural Resources; Mrs Betty Mould-Iddrisu, Justice and Attorney-General, and Mr Mike Hammah, Transport.
This was contained in the first report of the Appointments Committee laid before the House yesterday. It is expected that other nominees will be recommended for approval or otherwise in due course.
Although the report was laid before Parliament yesterday, discussions on it were deferred to today due to errors in the report that needed to be corrected.
The Chairman of the committee, Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, had taken a swipe at the Clerk of the committee for some of the errors in the report and asked the House to adjourn sitting to enable the corrections to be effected.
The Minority Leader and Ranking Member of the committee, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, said the committee had been working under severe pressure and late into the evenings, saying that might have accounted for some of the errors.
He said as human beings, the members could make some mistakes and also prayed for some time to enable the committee to correct the mistakes.
The Majority Leader, Mr Alban Bagbin, told the House that he had followed the work of the committee and noted that it had worked under “a lot of pressure”.
He said he had visited both Mr Adjaho and Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu on some occasions and could attest to the work rate of the committee.
He observed that the committee and the staff attached to it had worked under severe pressure and recommended that the errors in the report be corrected before the motion was moved.
Sitting was adjourned to today.