This week, six ministers are scheduled to testify before the legislature and respond to 38 inquiries of various kinds.
They are Amoako Atta, Minister of Roads and Highways, Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, and Samuel Jinapor, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources. Stephen Asamoah Boateng is the Minister of Roads and Highways.
The remaining two are Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, and Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Minister of Employment and Labour Relations, both of whom serve in the President's Office as Ministers of State.
There are 37 oral questions, one of which is urgent.
Presentation
In his presentation of the House's weekly business statement last Friday, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the vice chairman of the Parliament's business committee, urged committees to send certain public bills, such as the Intestate Succession Bill, 2022, the Wildlife Resources Management Bill, 2022, and the Grains Development Authority Bill, 2022, to accelerate work on the aforementioned bills for the House's consideration.
The remaining bills are the National Petroleum Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2023; the Ghana Industrial Property Office Bill, 2023; the Rent Bill, 2023; the Budget Bill, 2023; and the Criminal Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2022.
"Mr. Speaker, this call by the Business Committee is borne out of the fact that the House has barely seven weeks left to consider these important bills and other parliamentary business that may require the attention of the House," said Mr. Afenyo-Markin, who is also the Deputy Majority Leader and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu for the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Questions
One of the inquiries to be made is from John Kobina Abbam Aboah Sanie, the NPP representative for Mpohor in the Western Region, regarding the measures being taken by the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources to address the willful destruction of cocoa farms, particularly in the Wassa-Fiase and Wassa Amenfi areas, by illegal miners known as galamsey.
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