Monrovia – Reports reaching this newspaper have it that the Senate took a last minute decision on late Monday night to confirm two assistant ministers, who had been reportedly denied confirmation. The Senate had earlier agreed to deny the student ministers’ confirmations in order to set a standard but President George Manneh Weah’s “last minute intervention” made them to rescind that decision. “The Senate agreed that since she will soon be graduating and based on the President’s intervention, she should be confirmed. That is what made us to change our decision in the last minute,” another source, who was a part of the confirmation process, said. Frontpage Africa had been informed by our Senate sources that the initial Committee’s report had denied her nomination.

Source: Front Page Africa March 21, 2018 02:26 UTC