The Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has cautioned Members of Parliament (MPs) during procedures in the House on Thursday March 31 to stay silent and pay attention to him when he is talking.
He demonstrated that contributing the Speaker when he is talking adds up to Contempt of Parliament, adding that he will be constrained to begin refering to MPs who take part in that way of behaving for disdain of court.
“Whenever the speaker is talking and you are additionally talking, that is disdain,” he said.
“Before long, I will be compelled to make reference to names and that is a significant,” he added.
There was warmed discussion among administrators in the House because of certain blunders that happened on the votes and procedures during the endorsement of the e-demand on Tuesday March 29.
Mr Bagbin apologized to the MPs for the mistakes subsequent to conceding that for sure the blunders happened. He assumed a sense of ownership with the slip-ups.
He said on the floor on Thursday March 31 that the assistant is just a government worker and asked that guarantees that the representative is sectarian be erased from the records.
“On the off chance that you take a gander at the participation book without a doubt, there are blunders, I will assume liability and apologize to individuals for these mistakes,” he said.
Mr Bagbin further demonstrated that there is no ideal votes and procedures which is an authority report catching Parliamentary discussion, anyplace on the planet.
Blunders, he said, are expected to happen subsequently, arrangements have been committed accessible to address those errors.
He expressed this after the Minority had said blunders were made on the votes of procedures for Tuesday’s sitting when the e-demand was supported by the House.
The Speaker complimented the Minority officials for bringing this up for the essential rectifications to be made.
“There not votes and procedures anyplace that are culminates,” Mr Bagbin said adding that “… the draft is brought to the house giving an open door to individuals to right the wrongs that they have been caught on the votes and procedures.”
“So appropriately you have come and rectified, what you have done is correct, we will go through appropriately and right the blunders,” he said.
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) legislators have sued the Attorney General following the endorsement of the e-demand by Parliament on Tuesday March 29.
The Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu portrayed the endorsement as illicit and illegal on the grounds that in their view, the Majority didn’t have the right numbers to pass it.
“This is an act,” he said at a public interview in Parliament, adding that “there is no E-demand.”
“Most of under 137 leading organizations just continued on unlawful and illegal business. Parliament didn’t have the numbers to take any choice that should restricting Parliament and Ghanaians,” he added.
They in this manner chose to sue over the turn of events.
By Kelvin Owusu|Sradio5.com|Ghana