Damongo lawmaker Samuel Abu Jinapor has reminded North Tongu Lawmaker and Chair of the Operational Recover All Loots (ORAL) Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa of the need to always hear the other side before passing judgment.
He stated that even God applied the principle of natural justice, in other words, the audi alteram partem before passing judgment on people.
During proceedings in parliament for the approval of the ministerial nominees, Abu Jinapor indicated that Mr Ablakwa haunted people he though they were engaged in wrong doing in the media without giving them a hearing.
This, in his view, was wrong.
“Even God passed judgment after hearing Adam,” the former Lands and Natural Resources Minister said.
During proceedings, the Minority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin gave detailed reasoning as to why his side opposed the nomination of Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa as Foreign Affairs minister.
He said their stance is based on the failure of the North Tongu MP to submit relevant documents requested by the Committee in respect of his earnings and assets.
“Mr Speaker the nominee has submitted only two out of nine documents requested by the Committee. We believe that he who comes to equity must come with equity.
He is on record as pursuing public servants and people in the political class and questioning their sources of income. If you are holding people’s feet to the fire, demanding transparency and accountability, it means that you yourself, when subjected to it, you will oblige,” he said.
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Afenyo-Markin added that, “he has been questioning people’s travel, people’s birth certificates. I will not pursue him and frustrate his political progress. As a matter of principle, we are opposed to him for the inconsistency. We the Minority have decided to wash our hands off his approval. Every sin at the Airport Hills, we are not part of the sins that he has committed. All the Airport Hills sins are on you. Carry your own cross. If he repents, we will welcome him ‘Awaawaa atoo’”
Samuel Okudzeto nAblakwa’s nomination was later approved by the NDC Majority in Parliament.
Mr Okudzeto Ablakwa is known to have used his Parliamentary Oversight crusade to expose what he termed “state capture” by appointees of the Akufo-Addo administration.
President Akufo-Addo himself suffered extensively from Ablakwa’s expose of his presidential travels. The North Tongu MP showed evidence of the huge cost incurred by the former president’s preference for private jets to travel abroad instead of using the presidential jet.
Ablakwa further fought the decision by the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) to sell some of its hotels to the former Minister of Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong. He also exposed what he termed suspicious transactions engaged in by a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral, Rev Kusi Boateng.
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