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Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper has severely censured members of the Parliamentary Appointments Committee for what he considers as a dereliction of their core duties. Kwesi Pratt Jnr, contributing on Peace FM's flagship programme, �Kokrokoo�, condemned the Appointments Committee for approving Ministers like the dismissed Deputy Communications Minister, Victoria Hammah. The Deputy Communications Minister, who until recently was nursing an ambition to amass huge wealth to herself in her political career, saw her dream crushed into pieces when President John Mahama issued a statement via the Information Ministry to remove her from office. Following her unrestrained revelations in an emotive conversation with a female interlocutor, Ms. Hammah disclosed some activities undertaken by a section of government officials, under the cloud of darkness. She was caught on tape to have said that the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, prior to the Supreme Court verdict on the opposition NPP�s Presidential election petition conferred with the Justices which somehow resulted in the validation of the presidency of John Mahama. Mr. Pratt, commenting on the issue, lambasted the Appointments Committee for lack of due diligence before and during the vetting of the former Deputy Communications Minister and other appointees of her ilk. According to him, the Appointments Committee members, whether from the minority or majority side, all have their own agenda to the detriment of their constituents. He disclosed that he once spoke with some Committee members on the Minority�s side, and what they said was that �If the President has appointed incompetent people; it�s his own cup of tea. We will approve their vetting so that they can bring dishonor to his administration."