Parliament on Monday rose “sine die” to end its First Meeting of the Second Session of the Third Parliament of the Fourth Republic. The Speaker, Peter Ala Adjetey said the House would tentatively reconvene on May 14 and congratulated members for their hard work and co-operation.
He appealed to the Minister of Finance, Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo to present the preceding year’s annual budget to the House in the previous year in the month of
October or November so that Parliament could have sufficient time to scrutinise the revenue and expenditure of the government.
Mr Ala Adjetey said he was aware that that had not been the practice for sometime now but constitutionally that was what should be done and if the Minister of Finance could go according to that it would be an additional feather in his cup.
Papa Owusu-Ankomah, Majority Leader, said during the meeting 80 papers were laid including bills, Legislative Instruments and financial agreements and 11 bills out of 17 were passed while five loans agreements were approved.
He said it was due to the hard work of both the Majority and Minority that the House was rising two weeks earlier than scheduled. Mr Isaac Adjei-Mensah, Deputy Minority Leader, thanked all those, who made the work of the House a success adding that because of the good working relations heated argument often ended cordially.
Source: GhanaWeb
