Six Ministerial nominees were not included in the report that the Appointments Committee laid.
This comes in response to a protest made by Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, the minority leader and ranking committee member.
Adansi Asokwa MP, who is visiting the Trades ministry on Thursday, lamented that the committee’s report was still pending more than ten (10) days after the nominees were vetted.
Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the majority chief whip, prayed for the report to be laid before the house.
Ato Forson disagreed, claiming that despite his contributions to the draught report, he had not seen the final version.
The objection however did not go down well with vice Chairman of the committee and deputy majority leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin who explained there was an agreement with the front bench of the Minority for the report to be laid.
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin then ruled the report should go back to the committee for approval by members before a presentation to the plenary.
Subsequently, Afenyo-Markin stated the hurdles had been cleared for the report to be laid. That, however, could not happen to mean the nominees will have to wait a while longer to know their fate especially given the directive by the leadership of NDC for its MPs to reject the nominees.
The speaker took the opportunity to reprimand the leadership of some committees for failing to produce reports on time.
He singled out the Constitution, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee which has failed to produce a report of the Anti-gay bill since last year for a mention. The former Nadowli-Kaleo MP warned of consequences if Committees fail to work as directed.