News:
March 4, 2019
In the wake of the Minority showing displeasure at the rate at which, Ministers in the current government are deliberately ignoring invitation to come to the floor to answer questions, Speaker of Parliament Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye has call for an engagement between the Executive and the Legislature to deal with the issue is worrying.
“Our own rules order 60 (3) Minister should not take more than three weeks to responds to a question on the floor of the House, it should be mandatory to implement our standing orders we would all have to come to an understanding between the two arms of government”.
This issue came up as a result of the Minority Chief Whip, Mohamed Muntaka Mubarak who did not take kindly to the Trade and Industry Minister postponing his appearance to the House three consecutive times to answer questions.
“The two leaders should engage, we cannot preside over the breach of our rules either, we should respect rules of the House”.
Order 60 (3) says, “A Minister shall not take more than three weeks to respond to a question from the House”, but this has been the case with the Trade and Industry Minister.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com