National Communications Officer of the National
Democratic Congress (NDC) is incensed at the decision by Minority Members
of Parliament (MPs) on Parliament’s Appointments Committee to approve
Minister-designate for Defense, Dominic Nitiwul.
Sammy
Gyamfi said he was shocked to the marrow when he heard the NDC
MPs had fallen for his [Nitiwul’s] “cosmetic explanations” on the violence in
their strongholds during the 2020 general election.
“People are appalled and dissatisfied with the
decision because the MPs have endorsed Nitiwul who led the institution to
terrorise citizens in our strongholds,” he said in an interview on Asempa FM’s
Ekosii Sen programme Tuesday.
The destinies of eight ministerial nominees hang
in a balance after the Minority rejected three and requested five to reappear
before the Parliament’s Appointments Committee for further questioning.
The nomination of the three rejected, including
Information Minister-designate Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Minister-designate for
Fisheries and Aquaculture, Mrs Mavis Hawa Koomson and Minister-designate for
Food Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto will be presented to Parliament for a vote.
Rejection, Mr Gyamfi stated, should be the fate of
Defense Minister-designate, Dominic Nitiwul.
“It does not send the right signal to the NDC,
especially in the Volta Region who were treated as second class citizens under
the guise of fighting COVID,” he fumed.
The NDC Communications Officer could not fathom
why the NDC MPs did not reject him for deploying soldiers to Banda and Volta
Region during the 2020 general election.
“I’m struggling to come to terms as to why our
representation in Parliament will take such a decision. It has far-reaching
effects on the people they are leading,” he added.
Mr Gyamfi said the decision is very unpopular and
“goes against everything our rank-and-file have voted and toiled for.”
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