Kojo Oppong NkrumahParliament has scheduled the vetting of newly appointed ministers of state and deputy ministers of state on Friday, October 26 and Monday, October 29. Those to be vetted on Friday, October 26, are Minister designate for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who is now a Deputy Minister of Information; Minister designate for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Cynthia Morrison, who is the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Agona West, and Minister designate for Upper East Region, Paulina Tangoba Abayage, the immediate past Ghana’s ambassador to Italy. Those to be vetted on Monday, October 29 are the Minister designate for the Brong Ahafo Region, Evans Opoku Bobie, who is the current Deputy Brong Ahafo Minister; Deputy Minister designate for Brong Ahafo Region, Martin Oti Gyako, who is the NPP MP for Techiman North, and Deputy Minister designate for the Eastern Region, Samuel Nuertey Ayertey. He said since he entered parliament in 1997 that has always been the practice by all the previous presidents sometimes reshuffling regional ministers to become sector ministers because the 1992 Constitution permits that. He said personally he has raised the issue before when he was the minority leader concerning regional ministers being reshuffled to become sector ministers.

Source: The North Africa Journal October 03, 2018 10:41 UTC