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I'm fair to both Majority and Minority - Vetting Committee chairman
According to Joe Osei-Owusu, "In all fairness it’s only about two or three instances that I’ve overruled… I think the charge is really unfair."
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Member of Parliament for Wa Central Rashid Pelpuo criticised the chairman following a banter between him [Joe Osei Owusu] and the Member of Parliament for Tamale North, Alhassan Suhuyini.
Joe Osei Owusu on Monday, 23 January, overruled Suhuyini from questioning Energy Minister-designate Boakye Agyarko.
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During the vetting of Boakye Agyarko, the MP exchanged arguments with the Chairman telling him in the face that he has not been fair to freely engage nominees the way he wanted, especially, about over issues relating to their respective ministry they are assigned.
"Mr. Chairman, I think that I have to make it clear that I am not happy with the way that I am treated on this Committee," Suhuyini complained.
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The Chairman of the Committee [Joe Osei Owusu] in reply said, "Honourable. Member, please play by the rules or else I will go pass you."
But the chairman of the committee speaking in an interview with Accra-based Joy FM said, "People may conceive things in their minds, but they must make them relevant. It is unacceptable in Parliamentary practice to name persons who are not available to answer."
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According to him, "In all fairness it’s only about two or three instances that I’ve overruled… I think the charge is really unfair."
However, the Minority Chief Whip Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak says Alhassan Suhuyini breached the rules of Parliament’s Appointments Committee.
He said "What he said was unfortunate and I want all of us to understand, when you first go to committee you have one difficulty or the other in trying to abreast yourself with the rules.
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"If Suhiyini was conversant with the rules, the same question that he posed, he could have put it in a way would have made it difficult for the chairman to overrule it," Muntaka said.
President of policy think tank IMANI, Franklin Cudjoe has lashed out at the Chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament for his autocratic powers during vetting of ministerial nominees.
Franklin Cudjoe in a Facebook post said, "It was rather disappointing that the chairman of the vetting committee had exercised his autocratic powers yet in preventing Alhassan Suhuyini from asking a question which the nominee minister would have confidently dealt with".
The MP [Suhuyini] has however, apologised to the Appointments Committee because he couldn't control his temper.
He said "I sincerely apologise to you for losing my temper."
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