A third additional financial source of US $60.6 million for the Ghana COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Programme was not approved by Parliament.
The International Development Association (IDA) of the World Bank Group and the Government of Ghana have a financial arrangement called the facility.
The resolution to approve the committee's report was made by the chairman of the parliament's finance committee, Kwaku Kwarteng, on March 31 at the conclusion of the third session.
However, when Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin again took the issue to a voice vote, the loan agreement's rejectionists won.
Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, the Deputy Majority Leader, was compelled to propose a division as a result.
Members of the majority New Patriotic Party (NPP) and minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) caucuses got into a heated dispute over his suggestion.
Minority
The agreement made at the leadership meeting with their counterparts on the other side of the aisle, according to Minority Leader Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson,
During Friday's all-night marathon House session, it was planned for the House to take up the revenue legislation before reviewing the whole report.
He remarked, "Mr. Speaker, we just did that; I'm astonished we're going to take loans right now."
Even though it was well beyond midnight, he claimed there was no agreement on the issue and that the House session was not yet over. "The members are battling to survive, Mr. Speaker, and we can't go on like this."
I've been informed that several of our members are already hospitalized. Therefore, Mr. Speaker, this is not how we can go.
So let's wrap up the day.
Majority
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the leader of the NPP and leader of government business, remarked that the loan agreement report being considered by the House was on the Order Paper of the House for the day and said that the Minority had set themselves up to oppose the budget legislation.
Consequently, Mr. Speaker, whenever there are urgent matters and we have not finished the House's work, we continue.
He stated that the House was meant to have addressed the financial legislation at their previous meeting. however, it was moved to the Third Session's opening meeting.
He also urged the House to vote in favour of the loan arrangement before sine die adjournment.
The Opposition Caucus maintained that the House ought to adjourn without authorising the loan, nevertheless.
Speaker
The House rejected the Speaker's request to hold a special session of the House on April 14 and 15 to discuss approving a financing facility for the Ghana COVID-19 Emergency Preparedness and Response Project.
The Whips on both sides of the House promptly gathered their members into the chamber when the division was called.
Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu intervened after the Speaker made the decision to proceed with the division.
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