Parliament last Friday approved the President’s nominees for ministerial and deputy ministerial positions in spite of a walkout staged by the Minority. The caucus staged the walkout to register their protest against what they described as bloated size of the government and the financial consequences it would impose on the taxpayer. However, the action by […]
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Some prominent Ghanaians including former Auditor-General Daniel Yaw Domelevo have petitioned Parliament seeking a bipartisan probe into the conduct of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) in the investigation regarding the stash of money found in the residence of former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Dapaah. The group, which also has outspoken anti-graft campaigner Martin Kpebu,
Lawyers of Parliament have formally requested the Chief Justice to fast-track track expedited hearing of two pending cases that relate to the Sexual Rights and Ghanaian Family Values Bill, also known as the anti-LGBTQI+ Bill. The request which was in the form of a petition filed on Friday, March 28, by Sory@Law, Barristers and Solicitors
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Introduction Honourable Members, I address you today amid circumstances that profoundly challenge the core principles of our constitutional democracy. At the outset, I must express my profound regret concerning the conduct displayed by the Presidency following Parliament’s successful unanimous passage of the Human Sexual Values Bill, 2021. The behaviour exhibited by the Presidency in refusing
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has suspended the consideration of Ministers and Deputy Ministers of State nominated by President Akufo-Addo. Bagbin’s decision stems from an interlocutory injunction filed at the Supreme Court by MP for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Etse K. Dafeamekpor, rendering Parliament unable to sanction new ministers nominated by President Akufo-Addo. This action
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Madam Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Communications Minister, Monday, attributed the multiple undersea cable disruptions, which affected mobile and fixed data services nationwide to a force majeure. A force majeure means an act of God. She said the disruptions, which occurred on March 14, might have been caused by an under sea landslide in the Ivory Coast and
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Mrs Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, Minister of Communications and Digitilisation, is scheduled to brief Parliament on Monday, March 18, on the disruptions in fixed mobile data services nationwide. Mr Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, the Majority Leader and Leader of Government Business in Parliament, made this known on Friday during the presentation of the Business Statement of the House
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Amnesty International Ghana has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo not to endorse the contentious anti-gay bill. Genevieve Partington, the Country Director of Amnesty International Ghana, characterized the bill as a “flagrant violation of privacy rights” that could have severe repercussions for Ghana if enacted into law. This plea was made during a meeting involving
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Mahama Ayariga, the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, has once more lodged a petition with the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) regarding the recent construction of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Complex. In his renewed petition, Ayariga has reiterated allegations of corruption implicating the Bank’s Governor, Deputy Governors, the Board of Directors, and
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The widow of John Kumah, the late deputy Finance Minister and New Patriotic Party (NPP) member of Parliament for Ejisu in the Ashanti Region, has emphatically stated that her husband did not die from food poisoning, contrary to circulating reports in sections of mainstream media and social media. Instead, she clarified that he courageously battled
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