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Following a week of rigorous vetting of ministerial nominees appointed by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to occupy various portfolios in his second term, the Minister designate for National Security, Kan-Dapaah; Communications Minister designate, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful; Information Minister designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah; Gender and Social Protection Minister designate, Sarah Adwoa Safo; Minister designate for Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, and Energy Minister designate, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, have all taken their turn at the vetting, awaiting approval from the committee.
There are many other more persons waiting to take their turn this week.
Pulsating encounter
But one pulsating encounter that has sent tongues wagging is that of the Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister designate, Mrs Mavis Hawa Koomson, when she appeared before the Appointments Committee of Parliament last week Thursday.
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Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has underscored the need to protect the media because “they provide the sunlight that helps democracy.
Mr Nkrumah did not accept a suggestion from a member of the Appointments Committee that the Akufo-Addo Government is harassing the media.
The former broadcaster, re-nominated by President Akufo-Addo, to serve at the Minister of Information, at the beginning of his second term, stressed the need to protect the media and media practitioners, during his vetting by the Appointments Committee of Parliament, at the Parliament House in Osu- Accra.
The work of the Appointments Committee of Parliament, currently chaired by Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament and MP for Bekwai, is based on the 1992 Constitution and the Standing Orders of Parliament.
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