The Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, says the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, appears to have endorsed a movement recorded by the Minority in Parliament on the 2022 spending plan while he [Bagbin], was outside the country on a clinical audit.
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu demands that the First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu, accepted full accountability for the lead of business in the Chamber, while the Rt. Hon. Speaker was away, so assuming incidentally, Mr. Bagbin for sure conceded the movement, then, at that point, it doesn't drill well for parliamentary practice in Ghana.
Addressing Citi News, the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs said: "The First Deputy Speaker is accepting full accountability for the exchange of business in the Chamber, yet my arrangement is that the Rt. Hon. Speaker has minuted on the movement [from the Minority] that he has let it be known. Assuming that is the situation, then, at that point, we are in for something hazardous."
The Minority documented a movement testing the direct and governing of the First Deputy Speaker on the endorsement of the 2022 financial plan on December 1.
However, the movement hit an obstacle when the First Deputy Speaker would not acknowledge it.
On the rear of this, the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, on Monday, December 13, 2021, delivered an assertion serving notice of not yielding in its work to challenge the First Deputy Speaker's decision on their movement to save the endorsement of the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy.
As per him, he will seek after the movement when the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, gets back from his clinical outing on December 14, 2021.
He contended that the December 1 decision by the First Deputy Speaker "repudiates the Rules, Conventions, and Practices of the House and was impelled by inclination."
"The NDC Minority Caucus which I lead, and my great self, energetically can't help contradicting your situation on the movement and your direct in this. We take the solid view that your lead insults Orders 79, 81, 82, and 90 of our standing requests and can don't really be endured."
"In such manner, we are made plans to seek after this matter further with the Right Honorable Speaker upon his return," Haruna included his reaction to the First Deputy Speaker's letter dismissing the Minority Leader's movement for the saving of the December 1 decision on the 2022 financial plan.