News:
January 15, 2021
The Deputy Opposition Leader in the Eight (8) Parliament Dr. James Kluste Avedzi has said the Speaker of Parliament Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin after the first day of the first session of the Eight (8) Parliament is doing well by applying the rules of the House.
According to him the Speaker has not turned against the Opposition NDC in the House as some journalists would want Ghanaians to believe. He has so far applied the rules that governs the House.
“If those rules go in favour of us, no one should complain, same way if it goes in the favor of the ruling government party in the House, no one should complain”, he said whiles addressing the media on Friday, January 15, 2021.
He noted that the Speaker has been in the House for a long time and he believes he would apply the rules which should govern the House.
When questioned on the issue of how the Committee members would be shared on the various Committees in the House, he noted that, “we have to share members on fifty to fifty bases, and where we have odd numbers it would be thirteen for NPP and twelve for NDC.
Again with the thirteen (13) to twelve (12) ratio, the ruling government would do that for two years and the opposition would also take over for two years, “that is what our side want to see”.
He was quick to point out that for Committees like Finance, Defense and Foreign Affairs, they should be chaired by the governing party in Parliament, as the opposition party chairs the Public Account Committee, Government Assurance Committee and Subsidiary Legislation Committee
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com