News:
August 1, 2018
Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensa-Bonsu has agreed to suggestions from the Parliamentary that Governments need to bring loan agreement to the floor of the House early enough for Members of Parliament to do a thorough scrutiny before they are passed.
According to the Majority leader, the practice did not start from the current government, it has been the practice of Parliament in previous administrations.
He made this remarks when members of the Parliamentary Press Corps met with leadership of Parliament, for the leaders to brief Journalists on how the second meeting of the seven of the fourth Republic had been and for Journalists to seek answers to some developing issues in Parliament.
“I agree with you that it is not the best of practices, some of them had to do with the midyear review so we have to wait for the midyear review budget to be presented and we would know the way forward”, he said.
Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu added that there are some of the loans before the Economic Management Team for consideration, “I belong to a government committee many of the loans are before us.”
“I am not able to attend because I have a lot of work in Parliament; again I have to co-chair a cabinet committee with the Local Government Minister many of the loans have piled up”.
And added that in West Minister system of government in the United Kingdom where all the Ministers come from Parliament, they are still able to perform their functions as Ministers and MPs. In Ghana were we have some Ministers who are not MPs it should rather be easy for us to combine both functions as Ministers and Members of Parliament, he said.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com