Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has been slammed for claiming Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu is afraid issues of his past life could be brought to bare when he offers himself for ministerial appointment therefore settling for Parliamentary leadership.
According to Asiedu Nketia, he was in parliament with Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu when issues surrounding how he changed his name from Lawrence Addae to Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu came up.
He further noted that the Suame lawmaker knows “we know everything”, hence he settles for parliamentary leadership where there is no vetting.
Reacting to these claims, Dr. Nana Ayew Afriyie, NPP MP for Effiduase-Asokore noted that Johnson Asiedu Nketia as a former MP should know better and stop making baseless claims.
He stated that Kyei-Mensah has been vetted twice; one in 2007 and the other in 2017 to be appointed as Minister of State and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs respectively.
“It is also [trite] knowledge that as [the] minister for parliamentary affairs nominee, he was vetted in 2017. Asiedu Nketia should grow up. He has been a Member of Parliament before and I expected him to have had all these facts on his fingertips,” Dr. Ayew Afriye charged. “Going too pedestrian on a former colleague just for political expediency is needless,” he said.
“He should know better and make assertions grounded on reasonable thinking.”
Source: GhanaFeed.com