Tag Archives: PARLIAMENT

Parliament’s Select Committee has issued a number of conditions under which government’s decision to reintroduce road tolls will be accepted. Minister of finance Ken Ofori-Atta in a letter to the Roads Minister Kwasi Amoako-Atta has proposed about 85% increment in previous rates before the suspension of tolling. Speaking to Starr …

Joseph Osei-Owusu, Member of Parliament for Bekwai in the Ashanti Region, has admonished Ghanaians to avoid voting in another hung Parliament in the future. The MP, who doubles as First Deputy Speaker of Parliament said the current composition of the chamber has rendered it less effective in terms of the …

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has asked the chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa to appear before parliament over the controversial proposed Constitutional Instrument (CI). The newly proposed instrument by the EC makes the Ghana Card the only identification document to be used to guarantee citizenship if passed. On Thursday, …

Parliament has requested that Health Minister Kwaku Agyeman Manu appear before the House to answer questions about the country’s current vaccine shortages. For the past few months, the Northern Region and other parts of the country have been experiencing vaccine shortages, with no solution in place. The concerning situation has …

Former deputy general secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Obiri Boahen, has said that the military and police must be deployed to Parliament on February 7, 2023, when the House resumes its sittings. According to him, it is likely there will be chaos in the House because of the change in …

Majority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh has tasked Minority Leader Cassiel Ato Forson to retract and apologize for a tweet on government’s import ban on a group of selected items. Annoh-Dompreh quoted Ato Forson’s January 28 tweet which contained a photo of the banned items with the caption: “Folks, The NPP …

Member of Parliament (MP) for the Suame constituency, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has announced that he will not be contest to return to the lawmaking chamber in the 2024 polls. The MP who is also the Majority Leader disclosed in an interview on Wontumi TV (January 3) that with his age and …

Parliament has by a majority decision passed the Value Added Tax Amendment bill to increase the rate by 2.5 percent. The controversial bill had to go to a head count for it to pass by 135-136 majority decision. Members of the Minority argued against the upward review of the VAT …

The Parliament of Ghana has been rated the best Open Parliament in Africa in 2022, according to the Open Parliament Index (OPI) which was launched in July 2022. The Open Parliament Index is conducted once every two years and it is measured using three criteria including; transparency, civic participation and public accountability to assess Parliaments across Africa . The …

Parliament has sent a stern warning to the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta against toying with the security of Ghanaians. The caution follows the Finance Minister’s failure to release about 81 percent of the 2022 budget allocation for goods and services for the Ministry of Defence. Speaking during the approval …