Month: October 2018

Mr. Governs Kwame Agbodza, the  Member of Parliament (MP)) for Adaklu has commended the Speaker of Parliament for keeping to his work and ensuring that MPs who submitted qualified people got their research assistants.

He gave the commendation on behalf of his  colleagues when the house resumed sitting on Tuesday, and said he hoped those who have gotten the opportunity would consider it as a great opportunity and give them service that they deserve as Members of Parliament.

“This is a mile stone in the history of Parliament that we have been assigned official research assistants that would prove to the country that given the necessary support we are also able to deliver to the country”.

The Adaklu MP quite apart from his crusade in ensuring  that the House starts on time, has devoted much of his time in demanding that the House provides MPs with research assistant.

He was very persistent with this demand most of the time drawing the Speaker Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye’s attention to this and did that during the emergence recall of the House too.

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Minority Leader and Member of Parliament (MP) for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu has pledged to the Speaker of Parliament Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye that his side of the House from Wednesday 30th October 2018 would be punctual to do business in the House.

According to the Minority Leader he is aware that the Speaker is always on time carry out business of the day when the House is in session.

“From today we would be here by 10:00am to support you do government business, our ten should be ten, as you have been saying it should not be business as usual”, he lamented.

He further pointed out that the Ghanaian public is watching and observing MPs, “they are not happy with us, I make a commitment that from tomorrow ten o’clock prompt and sharp we would be here to support to start work”.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com

Majority Leader and Leader for Government Business, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has said to Members of Parliament whose research assistant do not meet the set requirement and have not been taken on, if not withdrawn, Parliament would do so.

Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu has taken a swipe at the Leader of Government Business and urged him to be definite as to when the Budget for 2019 would be presented on the floor of Parliament.

According to the Minority Leader, it is not encouraging for the Leader of Government Business in presenting Business statement for the week not to be definite on the day the budget would be presented.

“We need him to speak in certainty he needs to be definite, is it 13th or 15th October 2018, when it comes to financial matters he cannot be sitting on the floor here say that, business analyst and business are interested to know when the budget would be presented if it is 15th say so”, he lamented.

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As Parliament resumes from recess today, the Minority has said it would push for the House to touch on development on the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology today (KNUST).

According to the Minority Leader, in an “ideal Parliament” the first item is for the Speaker to accommodate statements on the brouhaha on KNUST campus.

He made this remarks when he addressed journalists in Parliament House indicating the Minority’s displeasure in the way and manner government is handling KNUST brouhaha and gave indications of what the Minority would want to see the House do today.

Mr. Haruna Iddrisu further pointed out that in the exercise of true oversight roles, details and facts of the development at KNUST should be shared on the floor, but lamented that it would become an issue of the Majority wanting to protect government’s position.

“It does not strengthen Parliamentary democracy and weakens our power to exercise oversight, by the very architecture of the 1992 constitution oversight rest largely on the Minority”, he lamented.

The Minority, he noted would engage the Speaker today on this matter and continue to engage you the media as we have done a day before the House resumes from recess.

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Member of Parliament (MP) for Atiwa East and Deputy Minister for Finance, Abena Osei-Asare has cut sod for the provision of a new clinic at Jejeti in her constituency.

The clinic project is expected to be handed over to the community in a year’s time. The project which is expected to cost three hundred thousand Ghana cedis (GHC 300,000), is being funded by the MP from her share of accumulated National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) fund.

According to the Atiwa East lawmaker, she had to intervene due to the perennial flooding since 2001 that submerged the current clinic, destroys medicines that run into millions of Ghana cedis during the draining season.

The MP together with the District Chief Executive (DCE) Kwabena Panin Nkansah approached the elders of Jejeti community, who provided a land at Old Jejeti for the relocation of the clinic, which is well tarred.

The DCE commended the MP for her assistant and revealed that on the 12th of July this year, she mobilized ten thousand Ghana cedis (GHC10,000) for the purchase and replacement of damaged drugs, whiles the Assembly bought eight mattresses for four affected nurses and four wards.

In addition the Assembly bought five hundred pieces of folders to replace spoilt ones, with both MP and DCE pledging to move the constituency forward in term of development.

AandC Construction Firm is to undertake the project with Nana Prempeh Okogyea as the managing director, as the MP pointed out that there are funds available to the clinic to be completed within a year taking into consideration inflationary situations.

The contractor revealed that the project comprises; Out Patient Department (OPD), a pharmacy, consulting rooms, injection rooms male and female wards with toilet facilities as well as lobby with toilet facilities.

Mr. Eric Atuahene,  the District Director of  Health applauded the intervention of the MP and added that his outfit was concerned with the health needs of the people in accordance with the World Health Organisation (WHO) policy of sustainable good health.

According to him, each time the issue of flooding of the health facility was reported to him, it is forwarded to government for assistant.

“The MPs intervention had come in handy, very timely and exceptional, we are very grateful for this great effort” he said.

By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com