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Parliament
debates double security role of Addo-Kufuor
Accra, June 11, Ghanadot/GNA - Parliament on Wednesday
debated whether Dr Kwame Addo-Kufuor, Minister for Interior
Designate, should serve concurrently as Security Chairman of
the Campaign Team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for
Election 2008 if approved.
The Nominee and two other Ministers Designate for Trade
Industry and President's Special Initiatives and Minister at
the Presidency were unanimously approved.
However, contributions from the largest minority National
Democratic Congress (NDC) called on Dr Addo-Kufuor to resign
from his party post now to avoid conflict of interest.
While Dr Addo Kufuor maintained that he would resign after
he had received the nod for the Interior Ministry, Mr Haruna
Iddrisu (NDC-Tamale South) said it was better for him to
immediately resign to serve the nation or kept his position
to serve his party.
In an intervention, Majority Leader and Minister for
Parliamentary Affairs, Mr Abraham Ossei-Aidooh assured the
House that the NPP would take the right decision on the
position of the Nominee as the Chairman of Security of the
Party's Campaign Team as soon as he is appointed.
On the issue of the rather seeming high number of Minister,
Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah- Bonsu, Deputy Majority Leader, observed
the absence of a specific number of Ministers that were to
be appointed in the Constitution, despite powers granted the
President to make nomination for such appointments for the
running of state business.
He suggested to the House to adopt a convention that would
regulate the number of Ministers to be appointed.
The other Minister who were approved were Papa Owusu-Ankoma,
for the Ministry of Trade, Industry and President's Special
Initiatives and Mr. Kwabena Mensa-Bonsu, a former Diplomat,
as Minister at the Presidency.
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