News:
July 7, 2020
Member of Parliament for Kumbungu Ras Mubarak has urge leadership of the Business Committee to reconsider their decision for include Monday sitting’s for Constitution Instrument (C. I. 94 ) for mature.
According to him the current registration exercise going on lawmakers need to be in their constituency to observe the exercise, more especially educate constituents on the need to observe social and physical distance.
“It looks like our constituents are not taking the education serious we need to as MPs be on the ground to reinforce the need to observe the protocols.
The Majority chief whip Kwesi Ameyaw-Cheremeh pointed out to the Kumbungu lawmaker that there is the need to have twenty one sitting days for the new CI to mature for the Subsidiary Legislature to pass the CI 94.
As this would allow students who are registering now the opportunity to transfer their votes as during the elections they would not be in school they can transfer their votes and participating in the voting exercise.
Speaker professor Aaron Michael Oquaye noted that the Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu emphasis the point that if the House needs to sit on Saturdays and Sundays it would be done for the twenty one sitting days to be met.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com