Sulemana Braimah, Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), has warned Members of Parliament (MPs) not to gamble with Ghana’s future.
He was referring to a lack of quorum in Parliament last Friday, which led the House to postpone approval of a €20 million agreement between Ghana’s government and the German Development Bank Group in Frankfurt.
Mr Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the Majority Chief Whip and Member of Parliament for Nsawam Adoagyiri, informed the First Deputy Speaker that a debate on the motion for approval of the €20 million deal between Ghana’s government and the German Development Bank Group, Frankfurt am Main, had completed.
He, therefore, asked the First Deputy Speaker, Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, who was presiding, to put a question on the motion for its approval, a request the Speaker heeded.
But the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Akatsi South, Mr Bernard Ahiafor, said while the House was about taking a decision, the law was clear that to be able to take decision, “we must have majority of members present.”
Sharing his views on this matter, Mr Braimah said “Our MPs must stop playing with Ghana’s future. We didn’t elect them for narrow partisan interests. How can a House of 275 MPs not have a decision-making quorum of 138 MPs for a number of sittings. Why should we have more than 120 MPs absent for a number of sittings. WHY”
