News:
November 13, 2018
Majority leader in Ghana’s Parliament Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has disclosed that many Committees of the House fail to prepare budgets for their planned programme of activities despite several promptings.
According to the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, he personally has often times reminded the various Committee chairmen of the need to cost all their planned activities in order to put same into the budget of the House but that has not been the case.
The failure on the part of committees to comply he said is partly responsible for why the committees are unable to deal with several referrals by the Speaker to them for action.
The Speaker of Parliament usually refer some pertinent issues that came up on the floor to appropriate committees for further actions and report back to the House.
Unfortunately, most Committees do not report back to the plenary on these referrals.
The Majority leader who is also the Member of Parliament for Suame was speaking on programme dubbed: Parliament in its own words” on GTV Govern.
The programme sponsored by the Public Affairs Department of Parliament was hosted by Sammy Obeng.
By Christian Kpesese/ ghanamps.com