Afenyo-Markin amid vetting confusion – Nothing will stop us from asking the relevant questions

The Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has maintained his side’s devotion to holding appointees liable throughout the vetting process, regardless of Thursday evening’s chaotic scenes at the Appointments Committee.

Talking after the hot assembly, the Effutu MP insisted that the Minority would not be frightened into silence.

“We have to ask the relevant questions. Some of the nominees, we don’t even ask them questions, but where we have to, nothing will stop us from asking the necessary questions,” he said.

“NDC is always out to intimidate people, always bullying. They can call us ‘micro minority,’ they can say whatever they want, but we have been cooperating with them,” he declared.

“Today, we agreed to do three [nominees]. The committee is on a partisan track. Indeed, she is a typical NDC. She agrees with them and then advertises and informs people to come.

“The practice has always been that the chairman and ranking would agree on who will come. Yesterday, there was no agreement. The chairman was with me, no meeting. Then, at 10 pm, they advertised for 10 this morning.”

Explaining what he narrates as a breach of protocol, Afenyo-Markin declared that the committee’s usual process was not followed.

The Minority Leader supposed that decisions on the number of appointees to be vetted kept changing.

“My deputy was here. They had a pre-sitting and agreed on three. Later in the afternoon, they said four. Then, again, they said, ‘Oh, let’s compromise on one more.’ We said okay, and they made it five. But just as we finished the three, we realised they had paraded several other nominees, thinking we would boycott. We will not boycott,” he vowed.

In spite of the disruptions, Afenyo-Markin sustained that the Minority was determined to carry out its duty.

“Nothing will stop us from asking the relevant questions,” he repeated.

Source:Chaleradio.com

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