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The Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga says he will vote against the nominees set to appear before Parliament 39;s Appointments Committee today because he has not received handling over notes.
Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga has threatened to vote against President Nana Akufo-Addo’s ministerial nominees for National Security and Health, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah and Mr Kweku Agyeman-Manu, respectively, if he is not given their handing over notes. In a statement issued on Wednesday, 10 February 2020, the day scheduled for the vetting of the two nominees by the Appointments Committee of Parliament, Mr Ayariga said: “Given that I have not received the Handing Over Notes, despite several efforts on my part, I hereby announce my decision to vote against the two nominees appearing be...
The Member of Parliament of Bawku Central, Mr. Mahama Ayariga, has asked the Administrator-General to provide Parliament with the handover notes of past ministers in President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s first term to enable members of the Appointments Committee to do a thorough job on vetting ministerial nominees. He said while the Presidential Transition Act provided that during the transition there should be handover notes which must be given to Parliament, the House was yet to receive the notes. That, he said, was a clear violation of the Act. Section Seven of Act 845 provides amon...
NPP Understands Difficulties Of Tertiary Students And Has Better Plans To Address Them By Prince Hamid Armah, PhD LISTEN FEB 5, 2021 After several postponements and contestations over the wording and competence of it, a private member's motion in the name of Honourable Mahama Ayariga, Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, was finally debated and put to a vote on Thursday, January 28, 2021. The final motion that was debated was, in the words of the mover himself, “materially different” from the one he had first canvassed on January 20, 2021. Then, the motion was “that this House res...
According to him, the committee will be doing Ghanaians a great disservice if they do not demand the best from the nominees. In an interview on Accra based Joy News, he said this year's vetting will not be business as usual. “You would have to justify your nomination by the president, and I think that is good for Ghana. We will be failing Ghanaians if you come and you are not up to standard and we just pass you,” he said on Wednesday. “I don’t think that the tax payer’s money, or with the kind of monies that are used to pay us to run the affairs of the public, it will be fair to the...