A friend to the Appointment Committee and Majority Leader Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin has insisted that the Chairman of the Committee has voting right despite his absence from the process.
This follows a split on the Committee’s yet to be prepared recommendation with fourteen members showing up to vet two nominees for the Supreme Court Justice Bernasko Essah and Professor Richard Frimpong Oppong.
The seven Majority members during the vetting voted for the approval of the nominees whiles the seven Minority members voted against their approval.
The Majority Leader in an interview with the media at the vetting of the two nominees noted that the chairman Joseph Osei-Owusu who is out of the jurisdiction and could not make it to the vetting of the nominees has a voting right and the standing orders of the House allow that.
According to him the recommendation of the Committee would come before plenary for approval but was quick to point out that the chairman was unavoidably absent because he is out of the jurisdiction but has a voting right and the rules of the House permit that.
Source: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ecowasnewsonline.com
