{"id":589384,"date":"2019-02-01T14:15:22","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p> <strong>Federick Opare-Ansah <\/strong><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliament was yesterday unanimous\nin kicking against a new proposed amendment by the New Patriotic Party (NPP)\nMember of Parliament (MP) for Suhum, Federick Opare-Ansah, who was tryin"},"modified":"2019-02-01T14:15:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T14:15:22","slug":"parliament-rejects-opare-ansahs-rti-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/01\/parliament-rejects-opare-ansahs-rti-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament Rejects Opare- Ansah\u2019s RTI Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p> <strong>Federick Opare-Ansah <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parliament was yesterday unanimous<br \/>\nin kicking against a new proposed amendment by the New Patriotic Party (NPP)<br \/>\nMember of Parliament (MP) for Suhum, Federick Opare-Ansah, who was trying to<br \/>\nintroduce a time frame within which the bill can become operational after the<br \/>\nPresident has assented to it.<\/p>\n<p>The Suhum MP\u2019s new amendment which<br \/>\nwas proposed at the tail end of the consideration of the bill wanted it to come<br \/>\ninto force 12 months after the President has assented to it, but his fellow MPs<br \/>\nespecially those from the minority side said that Parliament on its own cannot<br \/>\nadopt a new amendment which was not in the original bill.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MPs, when the new<br \/>\nbill is accepted it will indict Parliament which has committed itself in going<br \/>\nthrough all the proposed amendments during consideration stage for it to be<br \/>\npassed finally before Parliament rises for the Easter break.<\/p>\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC)<br \/>\nMP for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini, said if there should be such major<br \/>\namendment or insertion into the bill, it should come from the Attorney-General<br \/>\n(executive) and not a member of Parliament because it is the President who will<br \/>\nassent for the law to come into force.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, no official<br \/>\nreason was given to the proposed amendment for the time frame of 12 months to<br \/>\nbe put into the bill for the Act to become operational. He said Parliament does<br \/>\nnot have the constitutional power to introduce such a clause in the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The NDC MP for Bawku Central,<br \/>\nMahama Ayariga, however, disagreed with the NDC MP for Tamale Central that Parliament<br \/>\ndoes not have the power to introduce a time frame into a bill, stressing that Parliament can indeed do that because when a bill is<br \/>\nbrought to the House by the executive for consideration, it becomes the<br \/>\nproperty of Parliament. This means that Parliament can have the power to<br \/>\ndetermine when the bill will take effect.<\/p>\n<p>He said the only problem is that<br \/>\nthe amendment for the introduction of time frame did not come with any reason<br \/>\nand for that matter Parliament cannot accept such amendment based on the law.<\/p>\n<p>He therefore proposed that the<br \/>\namendment by the MP for Suhum be discarded to enable the bill to be passed into<br \/>\nlaw.<\/p>\n<p>The Speaker of Parliament, Prof<br \/>\nMike Oquaye, said that laws passed can never take retrospective effect but<br \/>\nrather \u2018futuristic\u2019 effect and so there is nothing wrong with the proposal for<br \/>\nthe \u2018futuristic\u2019 effect of the RTI bill.<\/p>\n<p>He however said that since Parliament<br \/>\nhas promised the people that the bill will be passed before Easter for it to<br \/>\ntake effect, it would be \u2018suicidal\u2019 and \u2018disingenuous\u2019 for Parliament to take<br \/>\nresponsibility for the 12-month time frame to be inserted into the bill,<br \/>\nbecause it will mean that Parliament has not been faithful to the people of the<br \/>\ncountry.<\/p>\n<p>He has therefore given the executive up to Tuesday to come and confer with the leadership of Parliament if it is in agreement with the new proposed amendment then the amendment will stand in the name of the executive and introduced in the bill so that the executive will take full responsibility for that time frame amendment and not Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Thomas Fosu Jnr<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federick Opare-Ansah Parliament was yesterday unanimous in kicking against a new proposed amendment by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Suhum, Federick Opare-Ansah, who was trying to introduce a time frame within which the bill can become operational after the President has assented to it. The Suhum MP\u2019s new amendment which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Parliament Rejects Opare- Ansah\u2019s RTI Bid - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/01\/parliament-rejects-opare-ansahs-rti-bid\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Parliament Rejects Opare- Ansah\u2019s RTI Bid - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Federick Opare-Ansah Parliament was yesterday unanimous in kicking against a new proposed amendment by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Suhum, Federick Opare-Ansah, who was trying to introduce a time frame within which the bill can become operational after the President has assented to it. 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