{"id":1569,"date":"2024-10-23T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:29:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:29:24","slug":"6-key-businesses-to-be-affected-by-parliaments-indefinite-adjournment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/6-key-businesses-to-be-affected-by-parliaments-indefinite-adjournment\/","title":{"rendered":"6 key businesses to be affected by Parliament\u2019s indefinite adjournment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has indefinitely adjourned sitting amid a controversy over vacant seats, leaving several key parliamentary businesses in limbo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This decision follows a dispute where National Democratic Congress (NDC) legislators occupied the Majority side of the aisle after the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs walked out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament had walked out earlier due to a controversy with the opposition, who had taken over their seats after claiming to constitute the majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are six key businesses affected by the adjournment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. Budget approval: The approval of the 2025 budget is key among the pending government businesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2. The revoking of L.I. on mining in forest reserves was a key condition given by organised labour as part of the conditions to rescind its planned strike action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3. Approval of $250 million Ghana Financial Stability Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4. Approval of $250 million Ghana Energy Sector loan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5. Approval of $350 million worth of tax waivers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6. Approval of 2 Supreme Court nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alban Bagbin told the House that they had enough numbers to conduct business but acknowledged that it was not enough to make decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After considering the Madina MP Francis Xavier-Sosu&#8217;s request for correction of the record from Thursday, the Speaker formally communicated his position going forward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/speaker-adjourns-sitting-indefinitely-amid-vacant-seats-controversy\/\">Speaker adjourns sitting indefinitely amid vacant seats controversy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>He also indicated that he has received a court process served on him as Speaker in the matter of the pronouncement on 4 MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t have at least half of all members of parliament present. Consequently, in view of the current circumstances, the fact that there&#8217;s a question on the composition and constitution of Parliament, and having regard to public interest and the exigencies of the state of affairs in Parliament, I will proceed to, in accordance with Standing Orders 59, adjourn the House indefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><sub>Source: Myjoyonline.com<\/sub><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-562\" style=\"width:132px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094.jpg 500w, https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG-20230613-WA0094-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em><strong><sub>Dmedia News (Domajuosu Multimedia)<\/sub><\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has indefinitely adjourned sitting amid a controversy over vacant seats,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1.jpg",636,424,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1.jpg",636,424,false],"large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1.jpg",636,424,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1.jpg",636,424,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1.jpg",636,424,false],"shareaholic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1.jpg",636,424,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1.jpg",636,424,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1.jpg",636,424,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/alban-bagbin-2-636x424-1-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Babia Mubaric"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/category\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">General News<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/category\/politics\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmediagh.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}