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Bagbin Sets The Record Straight...I Won By 138 Votes

A Yorkshire MP has resigned his position on an influential select committee two days before it is forced to shut down over what he called “dishonourable” behaviour by Conservative members.

Haruna Iddrisu, MP, Tamale South The National Democratic Congress Caucus on Thursday insisted that the NPP Group cannot claim a majority in the House despite a letter by Mr Andrew Asiamah Amoako, the Independent MP for Fomena to associate with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Group in Parliament. Mr Asiamah Amoako has written to Speaker Alban Bagbin to officially indicate his willingness to associate with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Side in the House. “I Andrew Asiamah Amoako, an Independent M...

LETTER | Will the special committee be truly independent? Modified15 Jan 2021, 6:03 am A - LETTER | A proclamation is but a declaration – an official declaration issued by a person of authority to make certain announcements known. Or simply an official formal public announcement. So, a proclamation of emergency is simply what it is: an official declaration of a state of emergency. It is not the law itself. The law is to be supplied by an Emergency Ordinance, as the law is called when a procla...

  The National Democratic Congress Caucus on Thursday insisted that the NPP Group cannot claim majority in the House despite a letter by Mr Andrew Asiamah Amoako, the Independent MP for Fomena to associate with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Group in Parliament. Mr Asiamah Amoako has written to Speaker Alban Bagbin to officially indicate his willingness to associate with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Side in the House. “I Andrew Asiamah Amoako, an Independent Member for Fomena Constituency an...

Malawi Prisons Service (PS) has with immediate effect suspended relational visits from prisons across the country due to the surge of Covid-19 cases. In a press statement, Malawi Prisons spokesperson Chimwemwe Shaba said the decision was reached in order to prevent and manage further spread of the Covid-19 pandemic as the country in the second wave of the pandemic. “Malawi Prisons Service wishes to inform members of the general public that in the wake of increasing cases of Covid-19 pandem...

  The General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), John Boadu says it is naïve on the part of the members of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to say that the current 8th Parliament is hung due to both sides having the same 137 Parliamentarians.   “Whoever said that we have a hung parliament does not know the law. If anyone says that we don’t have a majority and a minority in parliament, the person does not know what he is talking about,” he chided...

705 The Deputy Leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) caucus in Parliament, Mr. Alexander Afenyo-Markin has asked the Speaker of Parliament, Mr. Alban Bagbin, to declare the NPP as the majority in the House. With the unending debate of which of the two political parties should form the majority in Parliament still unresolved, Mr. Afenyo-Markin, who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu, said an interpretation of the Standing Orders indicated that the NPP caucus should be the majority in ...

The General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has flayed Members of Parliament from the National Democratic Congress for their lack of understanding of the law.

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