The Minority leader in Parliament, Haruna Iddrisu, has called the processes leading to the confirmation of Hawa Koomson as Minister for Fisheries as embarrassing.
According to Iddrisu, he did his job as a minority leader by scrutinising the nominee and whipping his members to oppose her vote, but what each member does in the ballot box is their own prerogative.
Iddrisu’s comments addressed the disastrous vetting procedure of Hawa Koomson, who was expected to be opposed by the minority yet she garnered votes from some minority MPs.
“If you put that to a vote and you saw the embarrassing outcome of Hawa Koomson, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah,” he told the host of the Talk Time Show, Kwesi Pratt on Pan African TV.
“Haruna Iddrisu cannot accompany an NDC MP into a ballot box to guide him on how to exercise his vote. He is responsible enough. Mine is to issue the party whip, which is the directive that we expect you to stand against this policy, nothing more. And as an adult, respecting the secrecy of the ballot, I cannot be held responsible,” he stressed.
He had in the same interview explained that to the extent that the Constitution said 51% of Ministers should come from Parliament, the best the Minority can do is to vet for competence and knowledge of portfolio and to do as much damage as possible to candidates who do not prove themselves fit.
Source: theGhanaianVoice.Com