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The Employment Minister-designate and Gender, Children and Social Protection Minister-designate will on Wednesday face Parliament's Appointments Committee.
Ignatius Baffuor Awuah and Sarah Adwoa Sarfo who are expected to appear before the Committee will elaborate on measures they would undertake to aid the second administration of President Akufo-Addo.
Mrs Adwoa Sarfo is making a move from the Government Procurement Ministry while Mr Baffuor Awuah is praying to be retained and given a second mandate.
Twelve ministerial appointees have so far faced the Committee chaired by First Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei Owusu.
Both Minister-designate for Interior, Ambrose Dery and Kwasi Amoako Atta, Minister-designate for Roads and Highways, Tuesday, appeared before members of the Committee including Vice-Chair Afenyo-Markin and Ranking Member Haruna Iddrisu.
The other ministerial appointees include Minister-designate for Health Kwaku Agyeman-Manu, National Security Minister-designate Albert Kan Dapaah, Minister-designate for Defence, Dominic Nitiwul, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, Minister-designate for Education and Minister-designate for Local Government, Decentralisation & Rural Development, Dan Botwe.
Minister-designate for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, Attorney-General and Minister-designate for Justice, Godfred Dame, Minister-designate for Energy, Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Communications and Digitisation Minister-designate Ursula Owusu-Ekuful and Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, Minister-designate for Foreign Affairs.
Meanwhile, Parliament's Appointments Committee is expected to end all vetting process by March 9, 2021.
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