The Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga has threatened to vote against the nominees appearing before Parliament’s Appointments Committee today.
The decision follows their handling over notes not reaching his desk barely hours to their vetting.
That notwithstanding the fact that on Tuesday, the Minority Leader indicated his side had received the handing over notes.
Ayariga claims “unless I am given hard or electronic copies of the Handing Over Notes and their vetting is rescheduled to 48 hours after receipt of the Handing Over Notes” he won’t soften his stance on the matter.
Kwaku Agyeman-Manu and Albert Kan-Dapaah, the ministers designate for Health and National Security are billed to appear before the Appointments Committee today, Wednesday, February 10, 2021.
Find below his full statement
NOTICE OF MY NO VOTE – MAHAMA AYARIGA
Good morning Chairman and Honourable Members of the Appointments Committee. I hereby serve notice that my demand for Handing Over Notes pursuant to the Presidential Transition Act has not been met in relation to the two nominees appearing before the Committee today.
I have said publicly on several media in the last two weeks that I will only vet them if I have their Handing Over Notes which should be a comprehensive record of their work in the last four years. 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 before us today, unless I am given hard or electronic copies of the Handing Over Notes and their vetting is rescheduled to 48 hours after receipt of the Handing Over Notes. It is high time we take our sacred constitutional duties seriously so that those who are appearing before us may consider us serious. If this does not happen, I hereby inform the Chairman to record my votes on the nominees appearing before the Committee today as NO for both nominees.
Mahama Ayariga MP
Bawku Central
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