News:
July 21, 2018
As the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Presented Business statement for this week he indicated to Members of Parliament that seven Ministers would be on the floor of the House to address seventeen question this week.
Minister of Education Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh would address five questions whiles same number of question would be addressed by the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources Joseph Kofi Adda.
Trade and Industry Minister, Boakye Agyarko would tackle two questions whiles Alan Kyeremanten Minister in charge of Trade and Industry would handle two questions.
To address a question each would be the Minister of Health, Interior, Lands and Natural Resources.
Pursuant to standing order 70 (2) Ministers of state and MPs may be permitted by the Speaker to make statement on the floor of the House, whiles Monday the 23rd of July 2018 would be the last Monday for the House to sit before it goes on recess on recess.
Parliament has changed its original day of going for recess from the Friday the 27th July to the 28th July 2018 based on the packed of activities the House would undertake, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs said.
Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu further told the House the Business Committee had programmed that the House sits midday on Friday the 27th of the month, in view of the burial service of the former Vice-President Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur.
Whiles on Thursday the 26th of July 2018 the House would sit at 10:00am but suspend sitting at 2:00pm to observe the one week observation of the former MP for Sunyani East Joseph Henry Mensah and resume sitting around 4:00pm, leader of the House said.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com