Three Ministerial nominees, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Mavis Hawa Coomson and Dr. Afriyie Akotomo, who minority members of the Appointments Committee refused to endorse their recommendations for approval have been approved by Parliament after a tensed midnight voting Thursday morning.
As the NDC minority members on the Appointments Committee refused to give them positive verdicts after vetting, the three nominees secured recommendations to the plenary for approval through a majority decision of the Appointment Committee.
The House, left the concerned Ministers Minister Designate for Information, Fisheries and Agriculture sitting on tenterhooks as they went through a long, secret voting process which ended after 3 a.m. on Thursday morning.
At the end of the process, which also included meticulous sorting and accounting of the ballots, the three ministers sailed through with big comfortable percentage margins contrary to pre-election predictions.
After 265 members voted on the floor, Mavis Hawa Coomson secured the biggest percentage victory with 60.75%. She secured 161 YES votes and 104 votes NO votes.
Kojo Oppong Nkrumah followed with 155 YES votes and 110 NO votes, while Dr. Afriyie Akoto secured 53.96% of votes with 143 YES votes, 121 NO votes and one spoilt ballot.
Meanwhile Parliament unamously approved 10 other Ministers who were recommended for approval by consensus by the Appointments Committee.
They were:
Kan Dapaah,
Dominic Nitiwul, Ms. Shirley
Ayorkor Botchwey, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Dan Botwe, Ambrose Dery, Ignatius Baffuor Awuah and Sarah Adwoa Safo
