The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has described over-ruling a decision he had ruled earlier in Parliament by his deputy as “unconstitutional, illegal and offensive”.
The Speaker said this after a motion to probe into the COVID-19 expenditure filed by the Minority that was earlier admitted by the House and overruled later by the First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei Wusu, a second-time such incident has happened in the eighth Parliament.
The first decision the House admitted and overturned was E-levy.
Mr Bagbin said he would not take steps to overturn the ruling of the First Deputy Speaker on the matter but would meet with his deputies to prevent such incidents in future.
The motion on the COVID-19 expenditure filed by the Minority sought to probe how the government disbursed COVID-19 funds but it was shot down by the first Deputy Speaker after the Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo Markin, objected to the matter since it falls in the remit of the Auditor-General and not Parliament as far as 1992 Constitution is concerned.
Eva Frempon-Ntiamoah, ISD
