{"id":306775,"date":"2017-03-31T14:58:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=306775"},"modified":"2017-03-31T14:58:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:58:12","slug":"parliament-extends-sitting-by-one-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=306775","title":{"rendered":"Parliament extends sitting by one-week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament has extended its sitting by an additional week. This is according to Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the business statement to the house today [Friday], he said due to additional government business, the house is expected to deal with, they will now rise not later than Friday 7th of April.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, disagrees with the extension of the meeting till next Friday.<\/p>\n<p>He said Parliament cannot be made to suffer for the lack of planning associated with the President&#8217;s appointments.<\/p>\n<p>He wants the House to rise by Wednesday, 4th April.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_291662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-291662\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-291662\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu-1.jpg\" alt=\"Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-291662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, had earlier stated that, Parliament was most likely to extend sitting beyond the scheduled date for MPs to rise on\u00a0Thursday, March 30.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media, Mr. Mensah-Bonsu noted that, the House had a lot on its plate, making the scheduled recess yesterday [Thursday] implausible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are outstanding matters and it does appear we would have to push ourselves to next week. We are in a conversation with colleagues on the other side, and I hope we can come to an understanding on that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the outstanding matters was a discussion of the\u00a0report from Parliament\u2019s committee investigating the recent bribery scandal that hit the Appointments Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The report was laid before the House last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah &amp; Duke Opoku Mensah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament has extended its sitting by an additional week. This is according to Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu. Presenting the business statement to the house today [Friday], he said due to additional government business, the house is expected to deal with, they will now rise not later than Friday 7th of April. Meanwhile, Minority Leader, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[11],"tags":[3,533,3478,5749,5750],"class_list":["post-306775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-parliament","tag-postponed","tag-recess","tag-sitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306775","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=306775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}