{"id":8993,"date":"2022-10-28T13:49:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T13:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/2022\/10\/28\/seeks-audience-with-parliament-leadership-or-forget-c-i-speaker-tells-ec\/"},"modified":"2022-10-28T14:35:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T14:35:31","slug":"seeks-audience-with-parliament-leadership-or-forget-c-i-speaker-tells-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=8993","title":{"rendered":"Seek Audience with Parliament Leadership or Forget C.I \u2013 Speaker tells EC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Rt Hon Alban Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament has vowed to stop the laying of a new constitutional instrument (CI) if the Electoral Commission fails to seek an audience with the leadership of parliament.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission has announced the new C.I which seeks to make the Ghana Card the only proof of nationality for its impending limited registration exercise will soon be presented to parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The move has attracted stiff opposition from the NDC and some civil society groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu during the presentation of the business statement called for both the NIA and the EC to be summoned over the development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rt Hon Alban Bagbin<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Majority Chief Whip Frank Annor-Dompreh who presented the business statement assured bringing the two entities to parliament shouldn\u2019t be an issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rt Honour Speaker however asked the EC to engage not just the subsidiary legislation Committee of parliament as part of pre-laying formalities but the leadership of the House as well including his office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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