{"id":448732,"date":"2017-12-20T18:30:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T18:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/speaker-complains-as-sitting-is-suspended-twice-in-3-days\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T18:30:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T18:30:33","slug":"speaker-complains-as-sitting-is-suspended-twice-in-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/20\/speaker-complains-as-sitting-is-suspended-twice-in-3-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker complains as sitting is suspended twice in 3 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 20 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-20<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/22196353.295.jpg\" alt=\"SPEAKER COMPLAIN\" title=\"SPEAKER COMPLAIN\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Prof Mike Ocquaye, Speaker of Parliament<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513794633_17_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Ocquaye, has suspended sitting again, the second in three days over a persisting issue of absenteeism.<\/p>\n<p>By business time 10am, Wednesday&#8217;s sitting had only 43 MPs on the floor of the House when at least 91 MPs are needed to constitute a quorum.<\/p>\n<p>After Adaklu MP, Kwame Agbodza drew the attention of the Speaker to the lack of quorum in the 275-strong parliament, he suspended sitting expressing a rehashed worry about the commitment of the MPs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honorable members, we must be careful about the reputation of this honorable house. We come to work; we don&#8217;t get the numbers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If that is the attitude you want to adopt, let us tell Ghanaians,&#8221; he complained.<\/p>\n<p>Last Monday, only 18 MPs showed up for work, an improvement over the seven MPs who were present in the chamber for the October 31 sitting which was also suspended.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the MPs are mentally on holidays with Christmas festivities barely a week away.<\/p>\n<p>Not even media attention to the poor attendance last Monday served to boost attendance rate. 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