The Member of Parliament for Juaboso in the Western Region Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has threatened to challenge the approval of Ms Otiko Afisa Djaba in court over her failure to do her national service.
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NDC MP threatens court action if Otiko is approved
Her approval was on Friday deferred to Tuesday over the decision by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs to vote against her approval.
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“The law says that you cannot be employed by anybody, you can even not be self-employed [if you have not done national service]. National service is only nine months, at most one year; she should go and do her national service. Even the law courts will not condone, will not permit the breach of a statute. If they try [to approve her], we will all go to court,” Mr Akandoh said on Accra-based Class FM.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Majority Leader Sarah Adwoa Safo has accused the NDC MPs of introducing "extraneous" matters to stall the approval of Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba as the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection.
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"If you read the law, these are other extraneous matters that are being put into the eligibility and qualification criteria," Adwoa Safo said on Accra-based Citi FM.
"Going strictly by the law, the president in exercising his powers and she stood as a parliamentary candidate for Bole-Bamboi on one occasion, it tells you that that qualification that is set out in Article 94 of the constitution presumably might have been satisfied before she was even cleared to contest. If she had won, she would have been in parliament," she added.
The minority leader has stated in strong words that Otiko Djaba does not have the support of his side in the house.
“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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