The Efutu MP, Alex Afenyo Markin says it is unacceptable for the minority in parliament to threaten to vote against some ministers designate because of the Frontier Healthcare Solution Services contract.

Speaking to Emefa Apawu on Newsnight, he stated that it is not expected that these ministers whose positions are being threatened would know the details of the contract they did not sign.

“Now it is clear that the contract is between the Ghana Airport Company limited and the service provider. The Trasport minister-designate wrote to the Public Procurement Authority (PPA)."

"The minister tended that evidence as well and indicated that per the terms of the engagement it didn’t fall under any of the provisions that will require their procedures in arriving at a decision regarding the nature of the services the company wants to render.”

Mr Afenyo Markin explained that the Ghana Airport Company has a board and a legal team that handled the contract adding “referrals are not made to the Attorney General, lets not rather mislead the public.”

His statement comes after Minority MPs on the Appointments Committee threatened to vote against the approval of the Health, Transport, Information and Gender Ministers-designate.

The NDC MPs accused Kwaku Agyemang Manu, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah and Adwoa Safo of deliberately hiding critical information relating to how Frontiers was awarded the contract to undertake the Covid-19 testing at the Kotoka International Airport.

According to the NDC MPs, the aforementioned nominees although were involved at some point when the contract was awarded, has failed to speak to the details on the controversial contract.

Meanwhile, Mr Afenyo Markin said that the contract went through the needed due process.

He said the Ghana Airport Company also wrote to the Food and Drugs Authority to ensure that due diligence was done to get the equipment properly certified.

“In the case of Agyemang Manu it was not Ghana Health Services that entered into the contract neither was it the Ministry of Health, so he never misled the public, evidence shows that there was due process.”

He also debunked assertions that the company is managed by foreigners stating that the management of the company including its director and the witness for the contract are all Ghanaians.

“Bear in mind that we were talking about Covid a situation where our borders were closed, we needed to open our borders. The public must be satisfied that indeed due process was followed.”