The Minority Caucus in Parliament staged a walkout during a debate in the House on the approval of new ministerial and deputy ministerial appointees of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

The Minority Leader, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, argued that his side could not take part in the decision to approve Akufo-Addo’s appointees and by so doing increase the siz of the current administration.

“Let the records reflect that the NDC can’t be part of this approval process to further increase the size of this government. Mr. Speaker, let the record reflect.

“With these few words, Mr. Speaker, I want to signal that we are walking out and let it be recorded that they took this decision themselves; we are not part of it. Mr. Speaker, we have counted their numbers already, and we know the numbers,” he said before leading his members out of the chamber.

The walkout was after the Chairman of the Appointments Committee of Parliament and First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu, moved a motion for the House to approve the report of the committee on the appointments, which was approved by its members by a majority decision.

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