Alban Sumana Kingford Bagbin
Speaker of Ghanaian Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingford Bagbin, has advised the Federal Government to review the list banning importation of specific commodities into Nigeria.
He pleaded with the Nigerian authorities to fine-tune the policy to align with contemporary international trade practices, pledging his parliament’s support to end the impasse between traders of both countries.
Bagbin, who was addressing the House of Representatives at plenary, presided over by its Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, yesterday in Abuja, hinted that his leadership had appointed a seven-member committee as his country’s delegation to the joint committee of eminent persons of both nations’ legislatures to ensure enactment of the Ghana-Nigeria Friendship Act.
Unnecessary fight over the Speaker of Ghana Parliament
The fight over who serves as the Speaker of Ghanaian Parliament, for the House to get on carrying out its fundamental role, is getting very interesting as some political analysts are preoccupying Ghanaians over who should be given the title of majority in parliament and who should be named the minority in parliament. So, these individuals are more interested in the political colours of persons with vague ideological persuasions and politically tribal in parliament, than the actual business of the Ghanaian parliament, for which the electorates voted for them. So, when the number of seats in parliament is not balanced enough for the traditional dominance for the House to continue as mere rubber stamp of the President, some people are bent on going to any extent to circumvent the will of Ghanaians in parliament.