Now George is teaming up with the Parliamentary Speaker Alban Bagbin to pressure Akufo-Addo to sign the bill by suspending other parliamentary procedures...
The seven-member committee was set up by the Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin following demands by opposition MPs for a thorough investigation after the leaked tape made headlines in July...
It failed but the speaker Alban Bagbin established an ad hoc committee to investigate opposition claims that Ofori-Atta had amended fiscal measures to benefit his banking interests and had withdrawn cash unconstitutionally from the government's consolidated fund to finance its $400 million national cathedral project in Accra (AC Vol 63 No 16 Monumental disputes)...
As this played out Ofori-Atta has been defending himself in an ad hoc parliamentary committee organised by speaker Alban Bagbin...
The opposition National Democratic Congress led by Parliament Speaker Alban Bagbin believes that the bill will earn them more public support (AC Vol 62 No 20 Anti-gay bill heads to house)...
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The Speaker of Ghana's parliament Alban Bagbin openly supported the bill in June...
Civil society groups say that the bill is so constitutionally flawed it is beyond saving but it enjoys cross-party support as well as support from religious groups while Parliament Speaker Alban Bagbin has promised that it will pass...
Carlos Ahenkorah the NPP's MP for Tema West had snatched the ballots when it looked like Alban Bagbin (NDC) would win...
Other contenders include: Joshua Alabi former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Professional Studies; Ekwow Spio-Garbrah former Trade Minister; Alban Bagbin former majority leader in parliament...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 9 |
- GHANA
- SOUTH KOREA
The opposition New Patriotic Party has seized on the National Democratic Congress government’s apparent weakness and peppered Housing Minister Alban Bagbin with questions in Parliament...
