News:
March 1, 2025
The Minority in parliament has rejected the call for proportional debate on the Message of the State of the Nation Address (SONA).
The Minority through its Deputy Whip, Habib Iddrisu has given indication that the Minority would not agree to the Majority’s proportional SONA debate scheduled for Tuesday, March 4, 2025.
According to him it is alien to the House, that kind of proposition being out forward by the Majority Leader, Mahama Ayariga when he presented the Business Statement on the floor of the House on Friday, February 28, 2025.
Again, the Majority Leader should know that even in the seventh Parliament when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was in the Majority, they never resorted to proportion in terms of debate of SONA.
“We should have five from the Majority and five from the Minority. What is the Majority afraid of? You believe the message the president presented is the state of the Nation; this part of the business statement should be taken away. It is strange to the rule.”
A member who wants to speak would stand in his or her seat when he or she catches the eyes of the Speaker to speak and it did not say proportion should be used, he added.
“Mr. Speaker, the Minority side will not be part of it and will not tolerate it, and we will not allow them to set a bad precedent for us. We will not agree to that, we will all speak and debate SONA”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com