Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt has admonished leadership of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Parliament for playing a part in the approval of some appointees of President Akufo-Addo.
Speaking on Good Morning Africa on Pan African TV, Pratt Jnr indicated that the party had taken its supporters for granted with their actions.
“The leadership of the National Democratic Congress not just in parliament, but all levels, takes their members and their support for granted.”
“I have always said that in approving ministers, the most important thing should be the national interest: are the ministers competent enough to handle their portfolios or not, and clearly it is obvious that some of the people who were approved are not competent enough to handle the portfolios that they have been given,” Pratt observed.
To him, the NDC has stabbed itself in the eye and they’ll face the repercussions in the 2024 polls. He wondered how minister-designate for Fisheries, Mavis Hawa Koomson polled more votes that Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, information minister designate.
“Nobody can convince me that NDC MPs did not vote for these nominees […] there were near or almost unanimous disapproval for Madam Hawa Koomson, so how come she gets more votes than Oppong-Nkrumah; how come, how come?” Pratt stressed. “The fact [that] Hawa Koomson gets more votes than Oppong-Nkrumah and Akoto Afriyie [separately] shows that what happened in parliament is unwholesome; clearly unwholesome. I am embarrassed, disgusted by this behaviour,” he said.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
