Speaker of Parliament adjourns sitting indefinitely again. NPP MPs didn’t show up.
Due to the absence of New Patriotic Party (NPP) Members of Parliament (MPs), Speaker of the House Alban Bagbin once again adjourned the session indefinitely on Thursday, November 7.
The Speaker said that without the NPP MPs present, the house would not have the quorum required to make decisions. In addition, there was no business before the house, which would have prevented any legislative action.
It was a blow to the planned emergency session, which was called to discuss urgent national issues, since the NPP MPs were not present in Parliament.
Disappointed, Speaker Bagbin pointed out that the NPP MPs’ absence made the session useless and necessitated a prolonged adjournment of Parliament.
“Matters that they wanted us to handle, which I admitted for consideration from the business committee, are not on the Order Paper and in fact, there is no order paper for today because the business committee could not meet due to the absence of the people who requested for the recall.”
“As you can see one side of the House is completely empty. In view of this, we have a quorum to sit but we have no business before us to transact. In the absence of that, there is no other authority that can put business before you that you have not adopted to transact.”
“In view of the failure of the business committee to sit, as a result of the refusal of those who requested a recall to show up, we are compelled to once again adjourn the sitting of the house. Knowing the challenges we are facing, it is not advisable to be adjourning from day to day. So, I will proceed once more to adjourn the meeting indefinitely,” he stated.
