News:
February 28, 2019
Deputy Majority Leader and Member of Parliament for Dome/Kwabenya, Sarah Adwoa Safo has said her side is doing all it can to ensure that Ministers in the President Nana Akufo-Addo’s government come to the floor to do business.
As representatives of the people the questions we ask on the floor are from our constituents, we owe it a duty to come to the floor to answer them, she added.
According to the Dome/Kwabenya lawmaker, Speaker Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye as a former diplomat understands the situation where Ministers have to balance their work in the Executive and come to the floor of the House to answer questions.
She made this remarks on the floor of the House in explaining that the Minister of Trade and Industry, Alan Kojo Kyeremanteng had communicated to the House that he is with the Vice President Dr. Bawumia on a Ghana-UK bilateral trade discussion.
He has thus given respect to the House, hence his question on scheduled for Tuesday February 26, should be rescheduled to Friday; by then he would be back from his trip.
The Deputy Majority Leader did not take kindly to the outburst of her colleague the Minority Chief Whip that the Trade and Industry Minister is not taking the House serious.
She quoted order 93 (2) to back her point, “it shall be out of order to use offensive, abusive, insulting, blasphemous or unbecoming words or to impute improper motives to any other Member or to make personal allusions”.
“Mr. Speaker my emphasis here is the imputation of improper motive by the Minority Chief Whip”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com