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All Akufo-Addo Appointees Will Be Approved – Inusah Fuseini
Parliament’s Appointments Committee will approve all ministerial nominees put forward by President Akufo-Addo because so far there are no constitutional blocks facing any of them, Inusah Fuseini, former legislator has said.
According to him, he has doubts whether a single person will be rejected because it is believed the President did some background checks and trust his appointees can help him deliver his policies.
He explained the basis of his doubt: “… all I hear is people talking about the fact that somebody has not been able to speak English or somebody doesn’t understand exactly the portfolio they have been given.”
He continued: “You must not take it away from the president that he had a minimum assessment of the capacity of his nominees to deliver on his policy. That is why he nominated them in the first place.
“So you must credit the president with some modicum of intelligence in putting people in places so that they can be able to push through his programs and policies,” he added.
Parliament, he explained, had the main responsibility of throwing light on the “the inadequacies of the nominee.” But that it was the president who maintained the prerogative to withdraw a nomination or for the house to reject a nominee who fails to meet the minimum requirement as contained in law.
