Grapevine

Appointments Committee of Parliament suspends vetting of Supreme Court Nominees

Accra, July 30, GNA-The Appointments Committee of Parliament on Tuesday failed to reach a consensus for the vetting of the two Nominees of the President for appointment as Supreme Court Judges.

The Nominees: Justice Sophia Rosseta Bernasko Essah, a Court of Appeal Judge and Professor Richard Frimpong Oppong, a legal academic and a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts Sciences, were scheduled to be vetted on Tuesday, July 30.

However, following a disagreement between the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Minority and New Patriotic Party (NPP) Majority Members of the Committee, Mrs Patricia Appiagyei, the Vice Chairperson of the Appointments Committee of Parliament, who was Presiding, had to suspend sitting of the Committee for further consultations.

The Nominees, who had arrived on the Sixth Floor of the Job Six Hundred Block of Parliament for the vetting were not admitted into the meeting due to heated arguments between the Minority and Majority Members of the Committee.

Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, the Minority, reiterated that the Minority were not against the appointment of the two Nominees of the Supreme Court, saying “and let me put it on record, the NDC Minority is not against any of the two Nominees in person, all that we are asking for is an opportunity to do our work well and then diligently do what the public has asked us to do. That is all”.