News:
March 18, 2018
Leader of Government Business has said the time of providing the list of Presidential staffers has not yet expired with a lot of demand being made for the list to be provided to Parliament.
According to the Majority Leader last year in July 2017 the President took over 7th January 2017 he could not report on the previous administration, “Mr. Speaker I wonder why people will want to litigate where there is no litigation. “
He further added that the President Nana Akuffo Addo is supposed to report on his tenure , he could not report on the previous administration when he has not even met them, he has to report within three months after the expiring of a financial year.
And the year ended in December 2017, “three months is March 2018 and we are not yet through with March so the President is within time”.
“In any event Mr. Speaker, I know that this document may be hanging somewhere I know that it has been prepared “long long ago” and it will be here Parliament will not go beyond March 2018 in this meeting.”
He made this remarks when the MP for Tamale South Haruna Iddrisu for the fourth time in this meeting demanded for the list of the Presidential staffers.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com