Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu, Alex Afenyo-Markin is also asking government and the Ministry of Finance to immediately address the financial crisis that has hit the Judicial Service to prevent a total shutdown of the third arm of the state.<\/p>\n
The Ghana Bar Association in a statement on Wednesday charged government to release its subvention to ensure the smooth running of its service. It noted that the Judicial Service has been paralyzed by lack of funds.<\/p>\n
But speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong> the Member of Parliament Finance Committee, said \u2018\u2019the government must be proactive in ensuring that necessary approval are released on time\u2026\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n According to him the same way government spends without parliament approval, it should also tackle the Judicial Service, which is an institution of state with all urgency.<\/p>\n He also noted that parliament will take up the complaints of the judiciary and address it. \u2018\u2019We [parliament] will take it up; this matter will be taken up because the judiciary is a key partner in our governance system,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n Mr. Afenyo<\/span>-Markin further mentioned the judiciary issue must not be reduced to a “blame game.”<\/p>\n He also urged the GBA to lobby the executive on the increase of their Internally Generated Fund (IGF).<\/p>\n The GBA in a statement called on Parliament to without further delay to increase the percentage of the internally generated funds, from 15% to 75%.<\/p>\n The MP said the non-performance of the judiciary will affect everyone in<\/span> society. He called on corporate Ghana<\/span> to also support the judiciary as part of Corporate Social Responsibility.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Evans Effah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Member of Parliament (MP) for Effutu, Alex Afenyo-Markin is also asking government and the Ministry of Finance to immediately address the financial crisis that has hit the Judicial Service to prevent a total shutdown of the third arm of the state. The Ghana Bar Association in a statement on Wednesday charged government to release its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":12771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-25849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}