Financial Analyst Sydney Casely Hayford, believes Parliament is only paying lip service with the vetting of ministerial nominees by its Appointments Committee.
Speaking on The Big Issue, he described the ongoing vetting as a ‘lame-duck’ process that hardly ever results in anyone being rejected after going through the process. “What I think is that, we are going through a lame-duck process with this vetting.
This vetting that we are doing and pretending like we are posing interesting questions is just a lame-duck exercise which has never resulted in anything.”
“When you are on that deck and you are giving answers, you have a choice, you can either be yourself, speak your mind and let the chips fall where they may or you can be diplomatic enough and play the tomfoolery and say what they want to hear in order to pass through.”
“The fact of the matter is that, we are having the vetting and the Minority always goes one side and the Majority always go the other side, and you have a lame-duck situation and you are wasting everybody’s time because nobody is making any progress and then nothing has changed,”
Mr. Casely Hayford said. He noted further that, the vetting was not exposing the nominated persons with some of the questions coming off, describing them as distasteful just as the answers.
“Things like this are unbecoming of parliament of modern systems,” he said.
According to Mr. Casely Hayford, “when you look at the questions they are asking, Parliament is still stuck in some old-fashioned notion that everything we do should still be supported by the state apparatus.”
Source: Citifmonline.com
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THIS VETTING IS NOT ONLY A LAME DUCK PROCESS ITS A COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME AND TAX PAYERS MONEY.AKUFFO ADDO HAS BEEN ELECTED CAPABLE OF SOLVING GHANA'S ENORMOUS PROBLEMS THEREFORE HIS TEAM OF CHOICE ARE TO START WORK THE FIRST DAY AKUFFO ADDO AND HIS VICE ARE SWORN IN INSTEAD OF WASTING TIME FOR MORE THAN TWO WEEKS OF VETTING.A COMPLETE BALONEY. WE MUST REMEMBER THAT WE ARE NOT DEVELOPED LIKE AMERICA OR EUROPE WHO HAS MONEY TO DO WHATEVER THEY WANT.THEY SHOULD GET THEIR ACTS TOGETHER AND START WORK IN PROSECUTING ALL THOSE FRAUDULENT DEALS UNDER MAHAMAS GOVERNMENT.TIME WILL TELL.
Dear Casley please why do not propose a way to take the process and procedures are developed to the best practices. Just criticizing would not stop the problems enumerated.