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Graphic Online BY: Nana Konadu Agyeman 705 Four Majority Members of Parliament (MPs) have tabled two Private Members' motions for Parliament to investigate alleged interferences by some members of the security agencies and some vigilante groups before, during and after presidential and parliamentary election since 1993. They claim that such interferences resulted in injuries and loss of lives, and are therefore, asking the House to make consequential recommendations. They also want the House to investigate the ethnic, gender, regional and other sectional background of persons recruited into ...

  The Ningo-Prampram National Democratic Congress (NDC) appears to have disowned its Member of Parliament (MP), Sam George Nartey, following his claims that some anonymous Lesbians, Gays, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI) have vowed to unseat him in the party's next parliamentary primaries if he continues to attack them.   According to a statement issued by the Constituency Deputy Communications Officer, Shehu Usman Mohammed, Samuel George Nartey's claim that unknown LGBTQI reached him on his telephone to warn him that if he continues to be loud against their operations in ...

Yes, that is what under normal circumstances should be the case, but what needs to be pointed out is the fact that the current structure of parliament which makes it more or less a blockade to the party in government can equally become a dangerous recipe for bribery and corruption. First of all, the legislature has not been able to satisfactorily purge itself of the corruption perception the public has held about it over the years which has been underscored by some allegations by not just its own members but leading ones for that matter. In 2008, former Member of Parliament (MP) for Esikuma-...

+ Bawku Central MP, Mahama Ayariga, says it was unconstitutional for the police to close the offices of the LGBTQ+ community in Ashongman, Accra.  Speaking in Parliament, he stated that although the practice of LGBTQ+ activities is illegal, the country does not forbid freedom of association or advocacy. Mahama Ayariga said members of the LGBTQ+ per the constitution have the freedom of speech and thus can express their unpopular opinions without facing backlash or consequences. He added that they also have the right to advocate for a position be it popular or unpopular. “Now that closure th...

The NDC Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has said the National Communications Officer of the NDC Sammy Gyamfi overstepped his boundaries in his attack on the Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin.