Politics
Speaker directs Roads Minister to withdraw statement announcing cessation of road tolls
Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has directed Roads and Highways Minister, Kwasi Amoako-Attah, to with immediate effective, withdraw his statement announcing the cessation of road tolls. According to the Speaker, the Roads Minister lacks the legal mandate to implement a policy proposal when it has not been approved and passed…
Read More »Stop collecting road, bridge tolls from today – Roads Minister directs
Roads And Highways Minister Kwasi Amoako-Attah has directed that toll collection at the various toll booths across the country must be halted effective Thursday, November 18, 2021. This follows an announcement government that motorists who ply tolled roads across the country, will no longer be required to pay tolls.…
Read More »2022 budget: Minority opposes electronic transaction levy
The Minority in Parliament has expressed its opposition to the newly announced electronic transaction levy the government. Delivering the 2022 budget on the floor of Parliament, the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta hinted at the government’s plan to introduce an Electronic Transaction Levy or E-Levy to increase tax revenues for…
Read More »‘Sosu is still on duty abroad’ – Speaker tells court
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Bagbin, is said to have written to the Kaneshie District Court to say that Madina MP, Francis-Xavier Sosu is still on Parliamentary duties abroad. This was disclosed the Magistrate, Oheneba Kuffour, on Tuesday. Mr Kuffour, however, described a portion of the letter from…
Read More »‘You had no such power to arrest Sosu’ – Speaker tells Police
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has stated that the decision of the Ghana Police Service to arrest the Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis-Xavier Sosu was contemptuous of the House. Addressing participants at a breakfast meeting in Kumasi, Mr Bagbin noted that although Parliamentarians are not above the law,…
Read More »Keta tidal waves were not caused sand winning – Dafeamekpor tells majority
Member of Parliament for the South Dayi constituency, Nelson-Rockson Dafeamekpor has decried suggestions the Majority in Parliament that, the destructive tidal waves that hit Keta and its environs were caused sand winning activities in the area Speaking to Ernest Manu on Top Story on Friday, the legislator intimated that, it…
Read More »‘NPP’s response to the Catholic Bishops is what we call the arrogance of power’ – Mahama
Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the NPP’s response to the recent comments the Catholic Bishops Conference as due to the arrogance of power. On Monday, November 8, the Catholic Bishops Conference at a plenary assembly of the Association in Wa, criticized the government over its failure to…
Read More »Nick Opoku: Parliamentary immunity: A ticket above the law?
The ongoing impasse between the Ghana Police Service and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Madina Constituency, Francis Xavier-Sosu, supported the Speaker of Parliament, over unsuccessful attempts the Police to invite the MP to assist with investigations relating to a demonstration he is said to have led raises…
Read More »Sosu is out of the country – Speaker Bagbin tells Police
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, is said to have written to the Police administration informing them that Madina MP, Francis-Xavier Sosu is out of the country on Parliamentary business. The embattled MP was to show up in court on Monday morning but failed to show up. Police Prosecutor ASP Sylvestre…
Read More »Removing Chief Justice from GLC may not fix legal education challenges – Kofi Abotsi
The Dean of Law School of the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA), Professor Ernest Kofi Abotsi, says removing the Chief Justice and other Justices from the General Legal Council (GLC) will end the challenges with legal education. “I can tell you, the proposed removal of Kwesi Anin-Yeboah from the…
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