Ministers-designate for Communication and Foreign Affairs, Samuel Nartey George and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa have been passed to assume their roles as substantive ministers.
The two received majority approval to be approved as ministers.
The Minority Caucus in Parliament, led by Alexander Afenyo-Markin refused to partake in the voting process to show their disapproval for the nominees.
In both instances where the 2nd Deputy Speaker called for a vote on the two, the Majority Caucus screamed in unison for their approval whereas the Minority Caucus refused to do same or even reject them.
Addressing the Speaker, Afenyo-Markin indicated that their approval was solely the Majority’s call.
“We abstain from the decision to vote for his approval and it is solely the Majority’s call,” he emphatically stated about the approval of Okudzeto Ablakwa.
“Mr. Speaker as indicated in the report by the committee, the 88 members of the minority, reject the nomination of hon Sam Nartey George. We remain opposed to the decision for his nomination to be approved by this house by consensus. We rely on our earlier grounds of opposition without more. We therefore leave this matter entirely in the hands and on the heads of the majority in this house. It is their cross to carry,” he added.
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