Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, minister of communications, has been charged by the parliamentary minority with avoiding responsibility.
They indicated that she had missed three opportunities to come before Parliament and respond to inquiries.
The operationalization of the e-levy and other matters pertaining to her Ministry will be covered in the questioning.
On Tuesday, the Minister was supposed to respond to 10 questions; however, her Deputy Minister notified Parliament that the replies were not yet prepared and that the Minister will respond to the questions in person at a later time.
Muntaka Mubarak, the minority chief whip, was not pleased with the Deputy Communications Minister's response.
The Minister was charged of insulting the House by the Asawase MP. "This Ministry is making a conscious effort to avoid answering questions. Check how many times, Mr. Speaker, the Ministry has requested that questions be rescheduled in writing to this House through a Director rather than the Minister. You have just learned that the solutions are not yet prepared. The 10 questions' responses are not all available yet?
"I sincerely wish the whole Minister was here in the House so I could express my views to her...
Even the yearly report from the Ministry and its agencies is running behind schedule, according to Muntaka.
However, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the majority chief whip, pleaded with the House to be understanding with the communications minister. He made it clear that Mrs. Owusu-absence Ekuful's was unintentional.
"In my opinion, this issue shouldn't be litigated in great detail. You have a valid concern, and I share it, that the Minister should demonstrate respect for this House and the Speakership by standing in place of him. I thus beg that we give her the benefit of the doubt and believe that these issues will be resolved, just as she stated that the Ministry will take the necessary action within the course of the week.
However, the absence of the Minister infuriated both the 2nd Deputy Speaker and Andrew Amoako Asiamah.
If the Minister is unavailable, he instructed her deputies to prepare the replies to the questions and provide them to the House.
He bemoaned that both the answers and the minister were absent. "Even if the minister has an emergency, the answers should have been here so that the Deputy Ministers could have taken the responses," he said.