2 stories tagged “Minority Caucus”.
Justice Edward Amoako Asante, Justice Sophia Rosetta Bernasko-Essah and private legal practitioner Anthony Forson Jr. were confirmed by majority vote after Minority members withdrew from the Appointments Committee process, with Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin insisting the objection targeted the rushed procedure, not the nominees themselves.
Walking out of Thursday's Appointments Committee sitting, the Minority Caucus argued that rushing Justice Sophia Bernasko-Essah, Justice Amoako Asante and former GBA President Tony Forson through vetting before Parliament's recess ends breaches multiple Standing Orders, while offering to proceed on the two ministerial nominees, Mahama Ayariga and Dr Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, on a normal timetable.
The two-hectare restoration exercise, capping MTN Ghana's sustainability month, targets a 1960s-gazetted reserve stripped bare by decades of illegal logging, with Mahogany, Cassia and Acacia species chosen to feed into the national Tree for Life campaign's 30-million-tree target.
Speaker Alban Bagbin congratulated both nominees after the House adopted the Appointments Committee report, but reminded them of the "very tall mountain" ahead, particularly for Mahama Ayariga, who moves from Majority Leader to Local Government Minister while retaining his seat in Parliament.
CEO Julius Neequaye Kortey cut the sod for a new RFID-embedded plate manufacturing centre at the Authority's Greater Accra regional office, set for completion in three months, alongside plans for regional embossment machines, licence-point deductions for reckless drivers, and expanded vehicle cloning to catch duty-dodging imports.
Ibrahim Gusau's departure marks a sudden leadership change at the NFF, though the circumstances behind his resignation have yet to be fully detailed.
The South African boxer, a former WBO bantamweight and super-bantamweight world champion, was shot dead in what police are treating as a targeted attack, with four suspects now in custody.
State attorneys told the High Court the negotiations had failed to produce an agreement, prompting Justice Halima El-Alawa Abdul Baasit to order the case to trial, though defence counsel Samuel Atta Akyea says a plea deal remains possible even after proceedings begin.
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