”Afenyo-Markin must Apologise to us or we’ll not deal with him”– Minority

The Minority in Parliament has asked the Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin to apologise to the caucus over his comments on their decision not to approve ministerial nominees.

Mr Afenyo-Markin described the position of the Minority not to approve any of the ministerial nominees as political immaturity.

However, the Deputy Minority Leader, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah said the Minority caucus will stop working with the Effutu MP if he does not apologise and proceeds on the tangent of insulting members of the minority group.

“We believe that we are in a serious time of crisis and this House is a serious House. It is not a house of insults, and we are not going to descend into that gutters with him. If he is going to be serious in engagements, then he should, if he goes on this path then we will not deal with him as a leader.

“We will urge him that he should apologise, so we can move on because clearly, our focus is basically to fight for the people of Ghana,” he said at a press briefing.

Mr Armah-Kofi Buah added that; “We in the Minority wish to make it clear that we remain committed to ensuring greater scrutiny and will spare no effort to protect the public purse. In line with this, we are taking part in the vetting process so that at the very minimum, we can scrutinize the President’s decision in bringing up those nominees. However, the Minority will not subscribe to a consensus vote at the level of the Appointments Committee.”

The Minority at a press conference served notice of not approving the new nominees.

According to the Minority Leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, the current economic crisis does not warrant new appointments.

As a result, he said although they will participate in the vetting process, they will not agree to any consensus voting on the nominees.