George Ayisi, Director of Communications at the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), has expressed grave concern over the Speaker of Parliament’s stalling on reconvening Parliament after the House recessed on March 20.
According to Mr. Ayisi, the action of the Speaker is slowing down government business by his actions.
The NPP Communications Team Member noted that it is imperative for Parliament to reconvene in order to fast track government business.
He attributed the Speaker's conduct to the perceived tension between the legislature and the executive, resulting in newly appointed ministers for the various ministries not being able to function as they should because parliament is yet to vet them.
‘’If a minister should go on with his or her work without Parliamentary approval, he or she will charged and dragged to court because the constitution does not allow that. This is slowing down government business," Ayisi Boateng added.
He was contributing to a panel discussion on UTV’s Adekye Nsroma on Monday May 6, 2024.
While commending the efforts made by the Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo Markin, in petitioning the Speaker to reconvene the House,, George Ayisi revealed that, without the reconvening of Parliament, some governmental initiatives such as such as the agreement between the Government of Ghana and the IDA for an amount of USD 150 million to finance the Greater Accra Resilient and Integrated Development (GRIDA) project and the Tax Exemption for selected beneficiaries under the 1D1F programme cannot be executed.
"At this time, I think the speaker of parliament, Alban Bagbin is the ideal person to be the speaker of Ghana’s Parliament in its current state because of his in-depth knowledge of parliamentary proceedings but the way he closed the last parliamentary meeting was not the best. It appeared that he closed the meeting because he was peeved," he said.
"If you want to exercise the separation of powers, you should know that the powers possessed by the three arms of government inter relate to each other. There is no absolute separation of powers," he added.
