News:
April 2, 2020
The Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs has unanimously recommend to the House to pass the COVID-19 Trust Fund Bill 2020 under a certificate of urgency in the light of the threats possessed by the Pandemic.
This Bill when passed would ensure the establishment of a management fund which was presented to the House on Thursday April 2, 2020 as it went through the first reading on the floor.
Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Gloria Akuffo urged the Committee to consider the Bill under certificate of urgency.
The Committee found it laudable that individuals and organizations were generously responding to the clarion call by government in the fight to reduce the spread of the disease and provide adequate care for those affected and limit the effect on socio-economic life of Ghanaians.
In the debate on the urgency of the Bill when it went through the first reading the House unanimously agreed that it pass under a certificate of urgency.
Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye, Speaker of the House referred the report to the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs to work on the Bill to come before the House same day to go through the necessary process; second reading, consideration stage and third reading, then pass into law.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com