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BY: Emmanuel Bonney
Category: Politics
Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu The First Deputy Speaker of the Eighth Parliament and Mr Andrew Asiamah Amoako The Second Deputy Speaker of the Eighth Parliament
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The Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic was officially ushered in with the inauguration of 275 Members of Parliament (MPs).
It also came with the election of a Speaker and two Deputy Speakers.
In the absence of the Speaker, either of the Deputy Speakers may take the chair when requested to do so by the Speaker during a sitting of the House without any formal communication to the House.
CID invites Inusah Fuseini for asking JM to declare himself president and form parallel government
The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service has invited the Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, for questioning over comments he made on a media platform, suggesting that the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr John Dramani Mahama “declares himself president and form a parallel government”.
The CID formally wrote to the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye requesting the legislator s presence on Thursday, 24 December 2020 to assist with investigations.
A letter signed by Director-General, CID COP I. K Yeboah read: “The CID is investigating a case in which the MP for Tamale Central Hon Alhaji Inusah Fuseini on Pan-African TV show, made some comments that: ‘I have said and I’ve advocated that the National Democratic Congress flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama and former president of
EC deliberately prevented Guan residents from voting – NDC MP
A member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee in Parliament, Rockson-Nelson Este Kwami Dafeamekpor, has described the inability of the people in the Guan District of the Oti Region to vote in the 2020 elections as “aberration”.
The Member of Parliament for South Dayi Constituency said “the EC has treated the people as if they are sub-citizens of this country” because the EC prevented them from voting at the last moment of December 7.
The Guan District is made up of Lolobi, Akpafu, Santrokofi and Likpe areas. These areas were part of the Hohoe Municipality until the referendum that created the Oti Region.
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BY: Nana Konadu Agyeman
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Parliament has passed the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill, 2020 which is targeted at protecting the unborn child on the roads.
The bill seeks to amend the Road Traffic Act, 2004 (Act 683) to proscribe acts that constitute dangerous driving and cycling that result in injury and or death of unborn children and related matters.
If assented to, the bill will ensure that the law recognises the loss of an unborn child as a separate and distinct loss and not only an injury suffered by a pregnant woman.
Besides, it will impose harsher punishment on drivers and cyclists whose actions cause injury or death to an unborn child.
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