The Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has announced on the floor of Parliament that, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and Samuel Nartey George, ministers designated for Foreign Affairs and Communications respectively, will be taken through secret voting to decide whether they should be approved or not because of a lack of consensus on their nominations.
Afenyo-Markin said that they are waiting for the documents that the nominees told the appointments committee that they would provide to substantiate claims they made when they appeared. "We will take Ablakwa, Sam George through secret voting," he said on Tuesday, February 4.
He added, "Those documents they promised to bring to us must be made available." But responding to him, majority Leader Mahama Ayariga said "The report of the committee says they have been approved by consensus." During the proceedings, the Speaker, Alban Bagbin lifted the suspension on the four lawmakers who were suspended for the mayhem caused during the vetting exercise last week.
The speaker's decision followed an appeal to him by the Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Marin to lift the suspension, a plea which was supported by the Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga.
