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Otiko Djaba's approval was illegal - Dep. Minority Leader
The Minority side of the House staged a walkout opposing her nomination on the basis that she refused to honour her national service.
Minister-designate for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba
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According to him, the Speaker of Parliament Professor Mike Oquaye refused to recognise Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu several times to allow him speak on her approval.
The Minority side of the House yesterday February, Tuesday 7, 2017 staged a walkout opposing her nomination on the basis that she refused to honour her national service.
Read more: Minority rejects Otiko Djaba
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The number of legislators who voted in support of her approval was 152, which is more than half of the votes of the 275-member house. No vote was recorded against her nomination as the Minority abstained from voting.
This followed a controversy after Minority MPs raised an objection that the ballot papers did not have the signature and stamp of the Speaker and, thus, could not be used for the ballot.
Read also:Parliament postpones Otiko's approval
On Friday February 3, the Minority in Parliament pushed for the vote to be cast immediately, but the Majority insisted the vote be deferred to today, Tuesday, February 7.
Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu debating her approval said "She does not have our support and she will not have our support until she behaves in a manner befitting a minister."
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But James Klutse Avedzi in an interview on Class FM said, "We in the Minority side of the house believed strongly that issues that were being done on the floor in connection with the approval of the nomination of Otiko Djaba was an illegality and for that matter we needed to express our views but the Speaker will never call even the Minority Leader who stood on his feet for more than 10 minutes.
"On three consecutive times, the Speaker will never call him to recognise him so that we can air our view and let the Ghanaians know the position that we have taken."
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