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Some NDC members have expressed disappointment in their MPs on Parliament’s Appointments Committee after the committee approved Defence Minister-designate, Dominic Nitiwul, Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Food and Agriculture Minister-designate, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, and Minister-designate for Fisheries and Aquaculture, Hawa Koomson, all of whose nomination the party asked its MPs to reject.
13 ministerial nominees were captured in the Appointment Committee’s report as having been approved.
According to Ras Mubarak, the involvement of the NDC’s MPs in the approval of those ‘controversial ministerial nominees is so disappointing that action must be taken against their leadership.
“Shell-shocked. A shake-up in the leadership of the NDC in parliament will do a world of good. A radical alternative,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Mr. Dominic Aduna Bingab Nitiwul, the Defence Minister-designate, says efforts were underway to establish military bases in each of the 16 regions to ensure prompt response to any terrorist attacks or external aggression.
Mr. Nitiwul, also a member of Parliament for Bimbilla, and former Defence Minister, made the disclosure during his vetting by the Parliament s Appointments Committee, in Accra on Thursday.
The Minister-designate gave the assurance that the Government was committed to defending and protecting the exclusive economic zone and territorial sovereignty of Ghana.
Mr. Nitiwul further explained that there use to be seven military bases when the nation had 10 regions, however, since the regions were increased to 16, it became imperative to establish military bases in each of the 16 regions.
Governance Watch Alliance, a pro-democracy group advancing the cause of the rule of law, has petitioned the Appointments Committee of Ghana’s Eight Parliament over the credibility of some Ministers-designate, saying they should not be approved to serve in the government.
They said some public officials, according to the Alliance, were given the opportunity to serve in the first term of the Nana Akufo-Addo-led Administration, but failed to live up to expectation.
“They demonstrated a high level of incompetence and ineptitude in the discharge of their duties which cost the country in many ways.
“We believe they must not be given the opportunity to serve in such a high office again,” the Alliance appealed in a petition jointly signed by Mr. Patrick Kwame Atuah, the President, Mr. Joshua Fugah, the General-Secretary, and Mr. Yakubu Moro, the Director of Research.
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