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BY: Nana Konadu Agyeman & Emmanuel Bruce
Category: Politics
• Mr Simon Osei-Mensah, Minister designate for Ashanti Region taking an oath before the appointment committee in Parliament.
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The Minister designate for the Ashanti Region , Mr Simon Osei-Mensah, has outlined plans to boost industrialisation in the region when given the nod.
The plans include the completion of work on the Kumasi Airport expansion project, the completion of the railway lines and the completion of the Boankra Inland Port.
Mr Osei-Mensah said that when he appeared before Parliament’s Appointments Committee.
“To realise the dream of industrialisation in the Ashanti Region in my next term if you confirm me, my concentration will be on three major projects; the completion of the international airport so that people can fly from outside Ghana straight to Kumasi”.
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Members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Parliament 39;s Appointments Committee rejected the approval of three ministers-designate and have further held the nomination of five other nominees.
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The Executive Director of the African Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA) says it comes as no surprise that some of the Ministerial nominees who recently appeared before Parliament’s Appointee Committee have been rejected.
Dr Rashid Dramani who was speaking on JoyNews’ AM Show Tuesday said the ministerial vetting must be based on their substance.
He was, therefore, not surprised when the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs on the Committee outrightly rejected some of the nominees.
“A few of them, I was not surprised. If you take the Communications Minister-designate [Ursula Ekuful], before the start of the process, there had been calls by CSOs on how she discharged her duties in the previous government and her conduct. So I wasn’t surprised; I knew that that nominee is going to have some challenges.
Though a member of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Alban Bagbin is more of a New Patriotic Party (NPP) Speaker, a former Municipal Chief Executive for Akuapem North, Mr Dennis Aboagye has said. The member of the governing NPP rsquo;s communication team made the comment during a discussion about the performance of the various ministerial nominees who have been vetted by Parliament rsquo;s Appointments Committee and the fate that awaits them especially as