Gifty Twum Ampofo pleads with Minority Caucus for mercy

So far, 35 of the deputy ministers and one Minister of State have been approved, with four more yet to be approved.

Members of the Appointments Committee of Parliament had initially disagreed over the approval of Gifty Twum-Ampofo.

After the Abuakwa North MP’s vetting on Thursday, June 10, 2021, the Member of Parliament for the Tamale North Constituency, Alhassan Suhuyini, announced his decision to kick against the approval of Gifty Twum-Ampofo.

However, she was on Tuesday, June 22, 2021, approved by consensus after the initial hesitation.

Masemtvgh.com sources say Gifty Twum Ampofo attended a minority caucus meeting earlier with members of the Majority leadership, to plead for mercy.

The Chairman of Parliament’s Appointments Committee, and First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei Owusu, has already explained why the Appointments Committee sat on Friday, June 11, 2021, despite a directive for parliamentarians to go to their constituencies to plant trees.

In an Eyewitness News interview, Mr. Osei Owusu said “I was informed by the Minority Leader that the leadership of Parliament had decided that Parliament will not sit on Friday, but soon after that, the Majority Leader informed me that the Appointments Committee will be sitting, I was not in the Chamber, so I did not know what was announced.”