Allow MPs to elect Speaker of Parliament - Ablakwa The Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has underscored the need for the ballot to elect a Speaker in the 8th Parliament is done in secrecy. The legislator who would be returning to the House after winning the parliamentary election noted that the standing orders must be respected. He said MP MPs must be allowed to vote freely and according to their conscience. He admonished his other colleagues to begin a vigorous campaign to have the ballot done in secrecy.
Read the full post below Article 104 (4) of the 1992 Constitution and Standing Order 9 (1) demands that the election of Speaker shall be done by secret ballot. It is absolutely imperative that this constitutional requirement is strictly complied with to enable MPs of the 8th Parliament vote freely and according to their conscience. We must all begin a spirited campaign to insist that the secret ballot rule is religiously adhered to.
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Investigations are not conducted into comments, CID invitation to me defective – Inusah
Member of Parliament for Tamale Central Constituency Alhaji Inusah Fuseini has said the invitation to him by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over comments he made to the effect that Former President John Dramani Mahama should declare himself president and form a parallel government, is faulty.
He indicated that investigations are not into comments, they are into crimes or alleged crimes and so the invitation itself.
Nonetheless, he said, he is consulting his lawyers in this invitation.
“The invitation has a major defect. They say I should come and assist them in an investigation into comments I have made on Pan African TV which comment they quoted but investigations are not into comments, they are into crimes or alleged crimes and so the invitation itself is deficient.
FULL TEXT: Minority MPs petition to Electoral Commission
The Minority caucus in Parliament on Tuesday broke through a police barricade at the Ridge Roundabout to submit a petition to the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensa.
The aggrieved legislators got involved in a scuffle with the personnel from the Ghana Police Service as they were marching from Parliament House to the headquarters of Electoral Commission in Accra.
Haruna Iddrisu, the Minority Leader led his members together with the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak.
The action of the Minority was triggered by what they describe as a stolen verdict of the just-ended December 7 election where the incumbent president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was declared the president-elect the Electoral Commissioner.
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The Minority in Parliament has published a petitioned demanding that the Electoral Commission (EC) collates the Techiman South Constituency Parliamentary and Presidential Elections Results from all the 266 Polling stations in accordance with the law.
The Minority contends that the Returning Officer for the Techiman South Constituency in the Bono East Region could not collate the results for both the Presidential and the Parliamentary candidates after the polling stations results had been counted and all Ballot Boxes sent to the Collation Centre in accordance with C.I. 127 on December 7, 2020.
“That we are reliably informed by the NDC Parliamentary Candidate that, no collation of the results from the various polling stations has taken place since the elections ended at the close of polls on the 7th of December, 2020; yet a declaration purported to have been made by the Electoral Commission in favour of the NPP Candidate is now public information,” the petition states.
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