Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has attributed the recent parliamentary chaos to the handling of the ministerial vetting process by the Clerk, citing a series of miscommunications and procedural lapses.
Speaking in an interview on JoyNews' The Probe on Sunday, February 2, Mr Afenyo-Markin expressed frustration over how the Clerk scheduled and announced the vetting of nominees. "We've agreed to vet three nominees by the time we finished, our colleagues reached out to us that one more should be done making it four.
We said, no problem. "When we finished the fourth, they now came and said, they wanted the Transport Minister-designate because his chiefs were around, and we were okay with her [Clerk].
Finishing with the nominee, we saw many others in the corridors and all had letters so I asked the Chairman are you aware, he said no..." "What triggered the confusion for the first time on the floor, was how she put out about 10 names for vetting," he stated, adding that the sudden changes disrupted parliamentary order and caused unnecessary tension. "Some of the confusion, I don't know whether the Chairman knows about it and playing as if he doesn't but I have a very good reason to believe the chairman." This comes after the Appointments Committee descended into chaos on Thursday evening as tensions between the Majority and Minority escalated into a heated confrontation.
