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2 years ago

BAGBIN BREAKS SILENCE, PUNCHES HOLES INTO MAJORITY CLAIMS ON 2022 FINANCIAL PLAN REJECTION

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2 years ago






The Speaker of Parliament has, interestingly spoken after the dismissal of the 2022 spending plan in parliament. 


In a Facebook post, the Speaker of Parliament said the 2022 spending plan was legally dismissed, hence, the assertion by the majority that it was unlawful ought to be ignored. 


He added that at the time the financial plan was dismissed, north of 138 Members of Parliament were available. 


"Kindly let it be realized that there were in excess of 137 MPs on the floor when I put the inquiry for the endorsement or dismissal of the Economic Policy and Financial Statement of the public authority for the 2022 monetary year frequently alluded to as the Budget for 2022," he wrote in a Facebook post. 


On Friday, November 26, 2021, every one of the 137 Minority Members of Parliament casted a ballot against the movement when the inquiry was advanced by Speaker Alban Bagbin. 


The Majority had before left the house after a conflict with the Speaker on the presence of the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia. 


The House previously casted a ballot to excuse a movement by the Finance Minister looking to connect with the initiative of the two players prior to deciding on the Budget. 


Responding to this improvement in parliament, the Majority chief Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu expressed what they say is the illegality related with a vote purportedly dismissing the 2022 Budget as introduced by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on November 17, 2021. 


In an assertion gave late Friday, November 26, 2021, after the 137 Minority MPs casted a ballot to dismiss the Budget, the Majority refered to among different reasons the requirement for something like 138 MPs in the house for the vote to be legitimate. 


Whiles blaming Speaker Alban Bagbin for following up on his gloat to hinder government business, the assertion added that inability to give the Finance Minister crowd with a solicitation to defer the endorsement vote was an indication of a foreordained intention to baffle government business. 


The Speaker has anyway reacted to these claims and has sorted the records out. 


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