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The Appointments Committee of Parliament will begin vetting the President’s nominees for the positions of Deputy Ministers from Wednesday, June 2, 2021.
The public hearing, which would end on Tuesday, June 15, will begin at 10:00 am each day.
As part of its work, the Appointments Committee invited Memoranda on the nominees from the public for consideration and
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo submitted a list of the 39 nominees to the Speaker of Parliament on April 21, 2021..
Their approval will bring to 86, the total number of Ministers, Regional Ministers and Deputy Ministers serving in the second term of the President’s administration.
33 of the nominees are sitting MPs with 11 retaining their deputy ministerial positions though some had their portfolios changed.
Mr Charles Adu-Boahene, previously a deputy minister of Finance, has been elevated to the status of a Minister of State at the same Ministry.
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Abena Osei-Asare and John Ampontuah Kumah have been nominated for the Finance Ministry, while Nana Dokua Asiamah Adjei, Micheal Okyere Baafi and Herbert Krapa go to the Trade and Industry ministry.
Mohammed Amin Adam, William Owuraku Aidoo and Andrew Egyapa Mercer, also go to the Energy Ministry.
Messers Osei Bonsu Amoah, Augustine Collins Ntim and Martin Adjei-Mensah Korsah have been nominated as deputy ministers of Local Government and Rural Development.
Thomas Mbomba and Kwaku Apratwum-Sarpong have been designated for the Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration ministry, whilst Alfred Tuah Yeboah and Ms. Diana Asonaba Dapaah head for the Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice.
Mr Yaw Frimpong Addo and Mohammed Hardi Tufereu go to the Ministry for Food and Agriculture. Madam Gifty Twum-Ampofo and Mr John Ntim Fordjuor have been nominated for the Education Ministry.
Mahama Asei Seini and Tina Gifty Mensah have been nominated for the Health Ministry while Messrs. Benito Owusu Bio and George Mireku Duker have been penciled for the Lands and Natural Resources Ministry.
Madam Mavis Nkansah-Boadu and Stephen Pambin Jalulah have been nominated for Roads and Highways, whilst Hassan Tampuli and Frederick Obeng Adom go to the Transport Ministry.
For Defence and Interior are Mr Kofi Amankwah-Manu and Naana Eyiah Quansah respectively while Ama Pomaa Boateng, Communications and Digitalisation; Abdulai Abanga, Works and Housing; Moses Anim, Fisheries and Aquaculture Development; Kwaku Asante Boateng, Railway Development; and Amidu Issahaku Chinnia, Sanitation and Water Resources.
The rest are Mark Okraku Mantey, Tourism, Arts and Culture; Lariba Zuweira Abudu, Gender, Children and Social Protection; Bright Wireku-Brobbey, Employment and Labour Relations; Fatimatu Abubakar, Information; and Evans Opoku Bobie, Youth and Sport.
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