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July 16, 2024
The Minority side of parliament has cautioned the Majority that government businesses would suffer if they (Majority) don’t correct their ways.
In what is becoming a growing trend on the floor of the House where the Minority Members of Parliament show up in their numbers on the floor of the House while their colleagues in the Majority abstain themselves from the floor of the House, Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Murtala Mohammad told the Rt. Hon Speaker Alban Kingsford Sumana Bagbin that, the Minority would not carry government business if the members on the majority side are not ready to show up in Parliament to lead in that regard.
On Monday July 15, 2024 the Tamale Central lawmaker expressed serious reservation on the Majority side to have abandoned the core mandate in Parliament only to follow the flag bearer of the NPP’s campaign in the constituencies of the minority seeking for votes.
He said members of the Minority could have done the same by abandoning their duties in Parliament and also campaign for themselves and their flag bearer to enhance their chances in the general elections.
The Tamale Central MP’s comments came up when he raised the issue of quorum (stopping proceedings of Parliament for lack of required numbers of 91 MPs).
The best numbers on the floor of the House was 41 of which 31 of that were from the Minority side and only 10 Majority MPs.
This forced the speaker to call for not more than an hour suspension of the House, and when they returned they were compelled to adjourn proceedings because they did not have the required numbers to do business.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com