{"id":394354,"date":"2018-01-23T14:48:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=394354"},"modified":"2018-01-23T14:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:48:56","slug":"parliament-resumes-sitting-after-christmas-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/parliament-resumes-sitting-after-christmas-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament resumes sitting after Christmas break"},"content":{"rendered":"
Members of the country’s legislature today [Tuesday] January, 23, 2018, returned to the House as Parliament resumed sitting after the Christmas break.<\/p>\n
The first meeting of the second session of Parliament is being chaired by the First Deputy Speaker, Joe Osei Owusu, because the Speaker, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, is currently serving as acting President due to the absence of both the President<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and the Vice President<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”cLpvYuCeT9tHdLtGMbisXgmJo5fp9dWn”]The House was recalled for an emergency session<\/strong><\/a><\/span> earlier in January after the Minority wrote to the Speaker urging him to call for the sitting to consider their motion on the alleged ‘cash for seat’ scandal.<\/p>\n MPs returned to the House again on Sunday, as Prof Oquaye was sworn in<\/strong><\/a><\/span> as Acting President by Chief Justice, Sophia\u00a0Akuffo.<\/p>\n However, this is the first normal sitting of the House since they went on recess for the Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n Citi News<\/strong>‘ Parliamentary correspondent, Duke Mensah Opoku, reported that the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu in his statement, called on Parliament to summon the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, to answer questions on the recent jailbreak at Kwabenya<\/strong><\/span><\/a> which resulted in the death of one policeman.<\/p>\n He added that the Police Command, led by the Inspector General Commander (IGP), was currently locked in a meeting with the Interior and Defence Committee of Parliament over that issue “and other related matters with regards to security in general in the country.”<\/p>\n The Tamale South MP also demanded that government gives clear indications on whether or not they would extend the stay of the former Guantanamo Bay detainees.<\/p>\n