President John Dramani Mahama’s short notice for the vetting of three cabinet nominations has drawn criticism from Joseph Osei-Owusu, the immediate past chairman of Parliament’s Appointments Committee.
With the vetting occurring only four days later on January 13, 2025, Osei-Owusu contended that the notification, which was sent out on January 9, 2025, was too hurried and prevented public involvement in the procedure.
This choice, according to the former Bekwai MP and First Deputy Speaker of the 8th Parliament, was a mistake because it did not provide the public or other stakeholders adequate opportunity to participate actively in the vetting process.
“I would have thought that [a] minimum [of] one week at best or two weeks [is given] to allow people who have issues and wanted to bring them out to the committee to enable them to do that, but I did not see any publication whatsoever. So I was surprised, and I think it was the wrong step.
“The reason we call that a public hearing is that we want to afford the opportunity for the public to participate in it, not because it is in public, but because we want to afford the public the opportunity to participate in it if there is a way,”‘ he reiterated.
“I thought that it was needless, hasty, and indecent to go through with this one.”
Source: newsthemegh.com