The Clerk of Parliament has told the injuncted Assin North MP-elect that he could decide to partake in the ongoing voting to decide a Speaker of the 8th Parliament and bear the consequences or opt-out.
The election of the Leadership of the 8th Parliament degenerated into a full-blown crisis with armed military personnel storming the chamber of Parliament to restore order.
Just when the MPs-elect were about to start casting their ballots to elect a Speaker for the inauguration of the 8th Parliament, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka and John Abdulai Jinapor were seen rushing to where the voting booth and ballot box were and removing it from its place.
From just after midnight on 7 January and for three hours, there was confusion in Parliament over the election of Speaker.
John Peter Amewu, the Member of Parliament-elect for Hohoe Constituency, was booed by his colleague NDC MPs-elect in Parliament prior to the swearing-in ceremony and inauguration of the 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic.
There was a standoff in Parliament over the eligibility of James Quayson, the MP-elect for Assin North to partake in electing the Speaker for the 8th Parliament of the Fourth Republic.
Muntaka Mubarak, the Member of Parliament-elect for Asawase Constituency did not take kindly to a move by the Clerk to Parliament attempting allegedly to serve the Member of Parliament-elect for the Assin North Constituency, James Gyakye Quayson the writ of an injunction by the Cape Coast High Court.
The MP-elect for Hohoe in a rage of anger threatened to kill NDC members of Parliament who were seen hooting at him as he approached their side of the aisle as Parliament turned chaotic Thursday night.
The MP-elect for Hohoe in a rage of anger threatened to kill NDC members of Parliament who were seen hooting at him as he approached their side of the aisle as Parliament turned chaotic Thursday night.
Black Starlets Head Coach Ben Fokuo has named his final 28-man squad for the 2021 WAFU Zone B Cup of Nations in League, Togo.
Ghana’s male Under-17 team, the Black Starlets have departed Accra for Kegue, Togo for the 2021 West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Zone B Cup of Nations.
Some heads of state and governments have started arriving for the President-elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's swearing-in ceremony on Thursday, January 7, 2021.
Cyril Kwabena Oteng Nsiah, the clerk of Parliament has ruled that he is not going to recognise the Assin North MP-elect in the election of Speaker of Parliament.
Cyril Kwabena Oteng Nsiah, the clerk of Parliament has ruled that he is not going to recognise the Assin North MP-elect in the election of Speaker of Parliament.
Member of Parliament-elect for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu has said courts do not determine who is elected as Member of Parliament in Ghana.
A former National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Nkwanta South Mr.
A former National Democratic Congress (NDC) for Nkwanta South Mr.
Private legal practitioner lawyer Tachie Antiedu has opined that the Cape Coast High Court judge who granted an injunction restraining the Member of Parliament-elect for Assin North, James Quayson, from being sworn-in into the 8th Parliament today, Thursday, January 7, 2021, erred in law.
A Security Analyst Richard Kumadoe has described as disgusting, a comment by Bekwai Member of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu (Joewise) to the effect that the victims of the Techiman South electoral violence could be likened to armed robbers who were shot dead while in operation.
A total of eleven (11) Members of Parliament (MPs) decided to retire from Parliament, thus did not contend in the 2020 parliamentary elections to represent their constituencies in the 8th Parliament of the 4th Republic.
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