The Minority in Parliament has officially boycotted sittings of the special committee investigating the chaos that engulfed the vetting of ministerial nominees.
The minority members of the committee although were part of the process during the first day of the hearing subsequently abandoned the exercise.
Chairman for the committee Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah however told the media yesterday the NPP MPs had decided to return.
However, the minority members were conspicuously missing from today’s exercise.
Addressing the media about the development MP for Asante Akyem Central and a member of the committee Kwame Anyimadu Antwi cited the refusal of the committee to hold a hearing behind closed doors and the bias of the chairman as reasons for the boycott.
According to the ranking member for the committee on Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs, he overheard the speaker suggesting to the committee chair to hold sittings in-camera.
Mr. Anyimadu Antwi also cited media interviews of the committee chair to accuse him of bias. According to him, some past violent public pronouncements of the chairman make him unfit to keep his role.
Consequently, the minority prayed to the speaker to remove the chairman and reconstitute the committee.
