News:
August 2, 2018
Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has said Ghana’s Parliament should fashion a system that should allow introduction of a Private Members Bill which has no financial implications.
According to the Majority Leader in other advance democracies, they have been able to work around a system where there is a private members Bill that has no financial implications.
The private members bill is part of the reforms the Speaker Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye wants to introduce when he assumed office and there had been raging debate on this issuea and how to introduce it.
Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu further added that MPs should be guided against coming up with bills that has cost, when government had already worked out its budge and know how much it would be spending.
He added that he believes Parliament would be able to work around the private members bill looking at the commitment of the Speaker on this issue.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com