Minority leader Osei
Kyei Mensah Bonsu says without the document it is difficult for
Parliament to decide which business to transact and which not to.
By
the new Transition law, the Executive was expected to hand to
Parliament a copy of the handing over notes one month to the elections.
They were supposed to do same to the Administrator General.
At
a press conference Thursday, the Minority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu
is alleging that the Executive has failed to give the handing over
notes to the Legislature.
According to him, he
has checked with the Clerk of Parliament, who is the custodian of all
documents in the House and she confirms the handing over notes have not
been brought to Parliament.
He said when he confronted the Speaker, Edward Doe Adjaho belatedly promised to follow up on getting the handing over notes.
He
then wondered how the Minority will be invited to take part in the
business of the house when it does not know what is in the handing over
notes.
Mr Kyei Mensah Bonsu explained the
handing over notes should have come with projections of what the
government intended to do from the day it handed over the notes, to the
7th of January, the day it will officially hand over power completely to
the incoming administration.
In the absence of the notes, he
said the Minority cannot tell what the government has set itself to do
during the period of the transition.
He lamented what he said
was the latter day recruitment exercise by the executive and other state
institutions, recruitments which have not been budgeted for in the
budget statement the John Mahama administration presented to Parliament
for the first quarter of 2017.
He wondered how the outgoing
government expects the incoming administration to pay the salaries of
the new personnel it is recruiting.
Media reports suggest
there are ongoing recruitments in the Army, Immigration, etc at a time
the NDC administration is bowing out, something members of the
transition team of the incoming administration have not been happy
about.
Mensah Bonsu said the Minority will only
be part of the business of the house for the few days remaining if it
is furnished with handing over notes and the projections.
He
also debunked assertion that the Minority is sabotaging the passage of
the Right to Information Bill by the Adjaho led Parliament.
He argued, the Minority throughout every stage of the process has shown more commitment to have the bill passed into law.
He
said just before Parliament rose, the Bill was withdrawn for a
re-sanitization and they hope the controversial clauses will be looked
at before the Bill will be passed into law.
Joy News'
Parliamentary correspondent Elton John Brobbey says the leadership of
Parliament is meeting over the matter to find an amicable solution to
the impasse.
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