Majority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has explained why the Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye has ordered all Members of Parliament to reconvene on Monday, September 24.
Listing some items on the agenda, Mr Mensah-Bonsu said the meeting would see parliament deal with the controversial AMERI deal.
He said Parliament did not consider the amendment of the AMERI deal before its recess because the request for further information about the deal is critical.
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Mr Mensah-Bonsu said parliament was yet to receive details on the cost of the amended AMERI agreement brought before them for ratification by the government and deal with the controversies surrounding the deal.
Members of Parliament have been recalled from recess by the Speaker, Prof. Aaron Mike Oquaye to an emergency sitting to help consider what he says is an “urgent Parliamentary business.”
Parliament is expected to sit for five days beginning 24th to 28th September 2018.
The House adjourned sine die on July 28th 2018 and was expected to reconvene in October for the next sitting.
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“In exercise of the power conferred on the Speaker by order 42 (3) of the Standing Orders of the Parliament of Ghana, I, Right Honourable Professor Aaron Michael Oquaye, Speaker of Parliament, do hereby direct that Parliament shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary, be recalled from recess to sit from Monday, the 24th day of September 2018, at ten o’clock in the forenoon each day, at Parliament House, Accra, to consider among others, some urgent Parliamentary business,” a memo to the MPs directed.
But the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs said parliament will also touch on the Right to Information Bill which has been laid before Parliament.
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He revealed that the Bill has since been referred to the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs of Committee of Parliament after Cabinet fully approved the Bill.
“The recall has become necessary for us to deal with pressing issues such as the controversial AMERI deal. We have to review, for the second time, the new Ameri deal which was not passed before going on recess. We would also look at the RTI bill, the Minerals Fund bill and others,” he said on Accra based Okay FM Monitored by Adomonline.com.
