Four ministerial nominees get vetted
Accra. Feb. 9 2012
The Appointments Committee of Parliament Thursday vetted four nominees of President John Evans Atta Mills for appointment as ministers and a deputy minister.They are Mr Moses Asaga, Minister for Employment and Social Welfare designate, Mr Dominic Azimbe Azumah, Minister of State at the Presidency designate; Mr Fritz Baffour, Minister of Information designate, and Mr Henry Kwadwo Ametefee, Deputy Volta Regional Minister designate.
The vetting of Mr Ametefee was nearly postponed when Mr Joe Osei-Wusu, the MP for Bekwai, insisted that the nominee’s name had been spelt differently by the letter signed by the President to Parliament informing the House of Mr Ametefee’s nomination from the name appearing on the nominee’s curriculum vitae. He said because of the different names, it was possible Mr Ametefee might not be the person who had been nominated for the deputy ministerial position.
The Chairman of the Appointments Committee, Mr Edward Doe Adjaho, had to offer assurance to the committee that the error would be ironed out at the committee level before the challenge was dropped by the Mr. Joe Osei-Wusu. Apart from this incident, the vetting process went on without any hitches.
Responding to questions on what new ideas he would bring onto the table, Mr Asaga, who was the first to appear before the committee, said his priority when given the nod would be to create more jobs.He explained that when approved, he would undertake skills gap analysis to enable the country and industries to produce skills that would be required to reduce unemployment in the country.
Mr Azumah, who was described by the committee members as a team player, had a field day, compared to the barrage of questions other nominees had to answer.
The minister of Information designate, Mr Baffour, when he took his turn, proposed a national stakeholders’ conference for the country to come up with a national story which, when told, could move Ghanaians to show patriotism and be prepared to go the extra mile to make the country a great nation like.
Credit: Daily Graphic.
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