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  Chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament Joseph Osei Owusu, on Tuesday suggested to Mr Joseph Cudjoe, Public Enterprises Minister-designate, to focus on entities set up as businesses with state interest. Mr Cudjoe, MP for Efia, was nominated by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to head the newly created Ministry, at the beginning of the second term of his Administration. Appearing on Tuesday before the Committee at the Parliament House, in Osu-Accra, Mr Cudjoe justified the creation of the Ministry, which he said charted a new path in the supervision of state enterprises t...

+ The Executive Director of the State Interest and Governance Authority (SIGA), Mr Stephen Asamoah Boateng, has explained that the presidential directive on the dissolution and reconstitution of statutory boards and corporations does not affect state-owned enterprises (SoEs) that are limited liability companies and those listed on the Ghana Stock Exchange (GSE). Consequently, he said, SIGA had written to the Office of the Chief of Staff to issue a communique to that effect to help bring clarity to the matter. Mr Boateng disclosed this in an interview with the Daily Graphic yesterday to throw ...

Within his rights potentially to hold finance as a leverage for state purpose, but the question why was he holding the eyed if that's what it happened if it was for the purpose of targeting a political rival or broadly routing out corruption, which is arguably a legitimate state interest and that's what it boils down to, how can they prove his intent, if they can. neil: and they can't, right? so even if you have a connection aid was withheld because they were slow on responding to his request, he could say that this had everything to do with slapping down on corruption in a country that had bi...

Of it just targeted him. and then one of the lawyers of the legislature said you better make this a little broader than just the president so we have plausible didn't when he challenges that. steve: when you say it's based on hatred i'm sure the democrats are saying it's just based on we want the fax. we want to know is there probable cause? is there something in his tax returns that looks suspicious. >> what legitimate governmental purpose is served to the state of new york by selectively exposing the privacy, the private tax returns of one of its taxpayers? when the government targets somebo...

That discriminates based on race, sex, national origin, etc. how is affirmative action allowed? earlier decisions said so long as you don't have a quota system in the educational institutions, if you have to diversity you can have race-conscious admissions. sandra day o'connor wrote an opinion that said eventually this is a band-aid, not a cure. when we get to a point where we have race that's equal or balanced we may need to overcome that because it's a compelling state interest to have diversity but when you have that under the constitutional law you have to have strict scrutiny. once the ob...