News:
February 28, 2019
Minority Chief Whip, Mohamed Muntaka Mubarak has taken a swipe at the Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyeremanteng for deliberating causing answers to questions filled for him to be pushed back three times within February 2019.
“I must say this is worrying, I must say the Minister in this month alone has written three times for his question to be differed three times; there is some deliberateness”.
He argued that when it was time for the President to present his state of the Nation Address, and because the President was in the House, Ministers find time to be in the chamber for the President to see them.
Again he promised, to come with a motion of censure, against the Trade and Industry Minister, “when Parliament needs them to do business they are not here, if he would not come to answer the peoples representatives”.
“We are treating the Ministers with kids gloves, it is long overdue that they are not taking us serious”. We are supposed to complement each other’s work; Mr. Speaker we should not encourage Ministers to keep postponing their questions. If we do that all of us would be making ourselves irrelevant, he stated.
Mr. Mohamed Mubarak Muntaka appealed to his colleagues that when his censure motion comes to the floor both side of the House would support him.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com