Tag Archives: Parliament

The outgoing Minority Leader Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has mocked the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for their heavy defeat in the just-ended 2024 general elections. He states that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) had transformed the NPP into a micro minority by claiming over 50 seats. Dr Ato Forson however assured that the incoming Mahama administration would not engage in ...

Parliament is set to reconvene today, Monday, December 16, 2024, at the Grand Arena of the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC), marking its first sitting since the landmark December 7 general elections. This session follows an official circular from the Speaker’s Office on December 11, confirming the location for the meeting. The December 7 elections have reshaped Ghana’s political landscape, ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has announced the recall of Parliament to convene on Monday, December 16, 2024, at 10 am. The session will be held at a venue to be announced by the Speaker in due course. “Pursuant to Order 58 of the Standing Orders of the Parliament Of Ghana, I, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, Speaker Of Parliament, ...

The Minority Leader Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has said that a request to recall the House is ill-timed and will constitute a needless drain on the Ghanaian taxpayer. He has suggested that the leadership in Parliament should meet immediately after the elections on December 7 to resolve the stalemate in the House. He has therefore pleaded with the Speaker of ...

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale Central, Murtala Mohammed says his constituents have asked him not to return to parliament if the House is called back. Speaking recently during a campaign tour in the Ellembelle constituency of the Western Region, the National Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, instructed the party’s Members of Parliament ...

Private legal practitioner and a United States-based Ghanaian professor, Kwaku Asare has stated that a person’s current status in Parliament does not restrict their status in a future Parliament. To that end, he has asked pundits not to advance questions about how a Member of Parliament’s seat could be vacated in a future Parliament following the Supreme Court ruling on ...

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has emphasised that the Legislature is a vital institution in governance. According to him, the House should not be taken for granted, as it serves as the mirror of Ghana’s democracy. He said this at the commissioning of the Job 600 building in Accra on Tuesday, October 29. Speaking at the event, Mr Bagbin ...

The vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has taken a swipe at the opposition National Democratic Congress members of parliament who he said caused commotion in the Legislative House to desist from such behaviour. NAPO who was addressing student nurses at Pantant Nursing and Midwifery Training School in Accra, condemned the behaviour of his ...

Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has announced the indefinite adjournment of parliamentary proceedings, a decision made on Tuesday, October 22. This move comes after a tumultuous day in the Chamber, characterized by heated disputes between Members of Parliament (MPs) from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the question of which caucus holds the Majority. ...

Parliament has strongly refuted claims circulating in a viral social media video suggesting that the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has been invited to negotiate with the President regarding a recent parliamentary decision. In a statement released today, Parliament clarified that the video in question is being falsely presented. The footage, recorded on 4th July 2024, ...