[ 2021-03-12 ]

Parliament approves Regional Ministers-designate
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s list of
regional ministers-designate has been approved by
Parliament.

All nominees were recommended for approval by
consensus in the third report of the Appointments
Committee.

This completes the prior approval constitutional
processes required for all the President’s
ministerial nominees.

Some ministerial nominees who were vetted by the
Appointments Committee were earlier also approved
by Parliament.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) side on the
committee had earlier flagged five nominees,
Godfred Dame, John Peter Amewu, Ursula
Owusu-Ekuful, Kwasi Amoako Atta and Kwaku
Agyeman-Manu due to various challenges they had
with their nomination, but the committee cleared
all five nominees and recommended them for
approval by consensus after meeting the said
nominees behind closed doors.

The only sectoral minister nominee yet to be
vetted is Ken Ofori-Atta, the minister-designate
for Finance.

Mr. Ofori-Atta was scheduled to appear before the
Appointments Committee last month but was unable
to do so due to health reasons.

Below is the list of the regional
ministers-designate approved by Parliament:

NO. REGION NAME OF MINISTER
1. Ahafo George Boakye
2. Bono Justina Owusu-Banahene
3. Bono East Adu Gyan
4. Central Justina Marigold Assan
5. Eastern Seth Acheampong
6. Greater Accra Henry Quartey
7. Northern Shani Alhassan Saibu
8. North East Yidana Zakaria
9. Oti Joseph Makubu
10. Savannah Saeed Muhazu Jibril
11. Upper East Stephen Yakubu
12 Western North Richard Obeng

Source - Citinewsroom

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