We will turn down the nominees for shooting

– Opposition MPs on the inquiry committee have notified that they will not approve nominees who shoot people.

– According to them, approving such a candidate will encourage officials to fire firearms indiscriminately for the slightest provocation.

– Akufo-Addo sent a list of 46 nominees to Parliament for approval.

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NDC lawmakers on Parliament’s Appointments Committee will reject any candidate with a penchant for shooting, warned Dr. Dominic Ayine.

“That should not happen,” declared the Bolgatanga East legislator in Good Evening Ghana on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, and supervised by YEN.com.gh.

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According to the former deputy attorney general, passing to those people will send a bad message to the Ghanaian public about the Committee’s thoroughness in its scrutiny of nominees.

Dr. Ayine’s comments were about the incident involving Mavis Hawa Koomson, who admitted to shooting at a voter registration center.

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President Nana Akufo-Addo appointed her as Ghana’s designated minister of fisheries.

Meanwhile, the deputy head of the minority, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah, has also been speaking about the commitments of the opposition MPs in the Committee to thoroughly vet the president’s nominees.

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Cudjoe-Ghansah, reacting to growing fears among party people that its lawmakers are susceptible to incentives to shirk their responsibilities on the committee, emphasized the promise made by members not to be induced.

“No one is going to take bribes from anyone,” he told Accra-based Starr FM on Monday, January 25, 2021. “We have promised not to take any penny from anyone because we know how people fought to get us where we are.”

President Akufo-Addo announced on Thursday, January 21, 2021, that he intends to have 46 ministers in his second term.

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He presented the list of appointed ministers to Parliament on the same day to initiate the investigation and approval processes.

It concludes 30 Ministers and 16 Regional Ministers, eight are women, six Ministers and two Regional Ministers.

Additionally, as part of his quest to reduce the size of his government, the president eliminated the controversial Office of the Senior Minister, as well as the seven special ministries he created in his first term.

Koku Anyidoho, founder of the Atta Mills Institute, praised President Akufo-Addo for drastically reducing the size of his government in his second term.

According to the former NDC deputy general secretary in a tweet spotted by YEN.com.gh, the president kept his word by reducing the size of his administration.

Akufo-Addo defeated John Mahama in the 2020 elections to secure another four-year term; collecting 51.302% of the votes cast compared to 47.359% of the latter.

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