{"id":52538,"date":"2014-10-01T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T06:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=52538"},"modified":"2014-09-30T20:30:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T20:30:04","slug":"parliament-to-resume-sitting-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/10\/parliament-to-resume-sitting-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament to resume sitting today"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ghana\u2019s Parliament resumes sitting on Wednesday for a week-long special meeting during which lawmakers will consider a number of new multi-million dollar loan and other agreements.<\/p>\n
But, Members of Parliament (MPs) will not be sitting inside the usual Parliamentary Chamber within the State House Complex in Accra.<\/p>\n
Instead, a makeshift Parliamentary chamber has been prepared within the Accra International Conference Centre to host the MPs for the next few days.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”orj3oGYRjg9RF0t24XMuT7x8CJFeyPvi”]The MPs will be working from the conference centre because the current Chamber of the Ghanaian legislature is undergoing renovation and expansion works to create additional the sitting space.<\/p>\n
It is unclear how long the emergency sitting will last but sources say it might not exceed five working days.<\/p>\n
Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0has gathered that key among the issues to be considered will be a multi-million dollar agreement covering what insiders are calling the second phase of the ongoing Kwame Nkrumah Interchange project at Circle in Accra.<\/p>\n Sources say other financial facilities and loan agreements to be considered by lawmakers will help the country raise money to support a number of other road projects, including the planned construction of a modern interchange at Kasoa in the Central Region.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Richard Dela Sky\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghana\u2019s Parliament resumes sitting on Wednesday for a week-long special meeting during which lawmakers will consider a number of new multi-million dollar loan and other agreements. But, Members of Parliament (MPs) will not be sitting inside the usual Parliamentary Chamber within the State House Complex in Accra. Instead, a makeshift Parliamentary chamber has been prepared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":28542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"yoast_head":"\n