The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has urged Parliament to assist the National Media Commission (NMC) in holding the investigative, prosecutorial, and judicial agencies accountable for reported incidents of attacks on journalists in the country.
The Majority Group in Ghana’s Parliament has asserted that the unsolicited choice of the Rt. Hon Speaker Alban Bagbin to resort to a “Division” instead of a “Headcount” was the cause of its decision to stage a walkout of Parliament on Wednesday, November 29, 2023, during the approval of the 2024 Budget Statement and Economic Policy on the Floor of Parliament.
The government’s fiscal policy for President Akuffo Addo’s final year in office is hanging in the balance in Parliament as the governing Majority NPP Group walked out of the House during a head count on Wednesday, November 29, 2023.
The Majority Leader and Leader of Government Business, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has laid a new Constitutional Instrument on behalf of the Electoral Commission of Ghana for the creation of a new constituency to be known as the Guan constituency in the Oti Region.
The Majority Leader in Ghana’s Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, is concerned about the effect of the Akosombo Dam spillage in the lower Volta area on the economy of Ghana, saying it will exacerbate the current food inflation in the country as a result of farmlands being washed away among others.
The Member of Parliament for the Asawase Constituency and Former Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, has joined calls for a revamp of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution since it only helps to elect a dictator for the country.
Beleaguered Member of Parliament of the Dome Kwabenya Constituency, Sarah Adwoa Safo, showed up in the Chamber of Parliament on Friday, November 11, 2022 looking all cute and fresh.
Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Minister responsible for Finance, would present to Parliament, the Budget Statement and Economic Policy of Government for the year 2023, on Thursday, November 24, 2022.
The Majority Group in Ghana’s Parliament has beaten a fast retreat on its request for the President to sack the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta and the Minister of State at the Presidency in charge of Finance, Charles Adu Boahen for the abysmal performance of the Ghanaian economy and the fast depreciating currency against the major trading currencies such as the dollar.
The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Bagbin has ruled that the recommendation by the Privileges Committee for the Parliamentary seat of Honourable Sarah Adwoa Safo to be declared vacant, is not final and that the entire plenary has to decide on the fate of the Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya and 2 others for absenting themselves for more than 15 days.
