Lecturer with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Dr Charles Marfo has stated that it will amount to punishment if the Senior minister designate Yaw Osafo Maafo is re-vetted.
He said it will be a waste of time and resources for the Appointments Committee of Parliament and Ghana as a whole to allow the former finance minister in the erstwhile Kufour’s administration to go through another round of hours of ‘grilling’.
Mr Maafo and the energy minister designate Boakye Agyarko have been asked to provide further explanations on their CVs as a result their approval have been put on ice.
Speaking with Kwame Adinkra host of Abusua FM’s Abusua Nkommo, he observed that it is a means to show the minister designate where ‘power lies’ after his rift with committee member Okudzeto Ablakwa.
‘I don’t believe its by substance to re-invite him. I see it more like punishment, some of the committee members have been arguing that he didn’t show respect to them. If you don’t want to approve his appointment, just say it, other than that I don’t get it, what questions at all are you going to ask him again. Parliamentary issues are handled in certain manner, so we just have to be careful about our comments before we are dragged to the house,’ he said.
He remarked that Mr Agyarko was the best minister designate to have performed creditably with his presentation during the vetting.
‘His vetting took longer than almost all of them, what kind of better particulars do you want again before you approve his nominations. He was confident, how can his former positions become arrogance?, its sometimes sad, I must say,’ he said.
Mr Marfo questioned why Ghanaians sometimes play the ostrich by not accepting the naked truth with issues regarding International Monetary Fund (IMF).
‘Who doesn’t know that the IMF has not been treating us unfairly, there is no way these people are going to be rejected, is no way, we will only be wasting state resources to re-vet them, some minister designates years back couldn’t even recite the national anthem,’ he said.
He argued that due process is not always the best, ‘what is the sense if due process doesn’t end anywhere’.
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IT IS ONLY IN GHANA THAT WE SUPPRESS PEOPLE TO SPEAK THEIR MIND. BECAUSE OF THIS WE ALLOW PEOPLE WHO ASSUME OFFICE TO DO WHAT THEY LIKE WITHOUT BEING QUESTIONED UNTIL WHEN THEY ARE REMOVED FROM OFFICE. THIS IS OUTMODED APPROACH IN POLITICS AND MODERN CIVILIZATION. AGYARKO AND OSAFO SPOKE THEIR MIND TO DEFEND THEIR POSITIONS. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG IN THAT. IN FACT THE ARE THE BEST OF PEOPLE SINCE THEY DONT HIDE THEIR MIND. MANY WOULD NOT SPEAK THE WAY MARFO AND AGYARKO SPEAK BUT AFTER ASSUMING OFFICE BECOME INADMISSIBLE. AND THE ATTITUDE OF SOME OF THE MP RETARD NATIONAL COHESION. SUCH UNNECESSARY DELAY TO APPROVE MINISTERS MAKE SOME TO FEEL AS UNJUSTIFIABLY TREATED BY THE SOME MPS AND AND LOOK FOR WAYS TO PAY BACK.
NO WONDER, IF NOT ONLY IN GHANA, WHO IS THIS FULANI MUTAKA MAN TO EVEN GET CLOSER TO YAW OSARFO MARFO,LET ALONE THIS OKUDZETO WITH SHARP TEETH? WHETHER ACCEPTANCE OR NOT THEY WILL HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY IN THE GOVERNMENT. LONG LIVE GREAT OSONO PARTY(NPP)
These opposition guys still behave like secondary school students. U have only one power, Ur vote. If u don't want to vote for the person just go ahead and vote against him but asking irrelevant questions thinking u are grilling the person is childish. I don't like these so called small boys in parliament cos of all this.
Osafo Marfo should learn that Ghana belongs to all of us ..... not only Akans. His attitude at the vetting committee was just too arrogant - he was just displaying the statement he made that only Akans have the right to rule Ghana - thereby showing disrespect and blatantly making everyone to know he is superior than them by virtue of his ethnicity. As for Mr. Agyarko, I sympathize with him and hope his issue will be resolved soon, but he should learn not to make false political statements just because he wants his party to come to power.
Akuoku and Alex. I agree perfectly with you. What Agyarko said is implicit in the document he was reading. But Muntaka and Co wanted to see "breathing down the neck of the president" before they can se it, lack of analytical sense!
Did osafo marfo say thhat " who doesn't know that IMF has not been treating us unfairly"?...hmmm i dnt he realised the grammatical goof...
The NDC members on the vetting committee are very bitter about the materials that have been produced by the NPP. Jealousy go quench. Ghanaians voted change and are expecting change nothing more.
If one says Kojo has kicked the bucket, does it mean kojo is playing football with a bucket?? It is only a figure of speech, just as 'breathing down somebody's neck' the quality of our parliamentarians is suspect. how can people like these be called parliamentarians when they do not understand simple English. Isalute you Hon. Samson Ehi.
If one says Kojo has kicked the bucket, does it mean kojo is playing football with a bucket?? It is only a figure of speech, just as 'breathing down somebody's neck' the quality of our parliamentarians is suspect.
On Agyarko's case there is an implication of the World Bank or IMF breathing down the neck of President Mahama. Where would we find in any document that this was stated but we can all infer! Our problem with energy has got to do with funding. If this not true let the minority prove otherwise.