{"id":592646,"date":"2019-02-19T22:00:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs committee is set for court for what he describes as the failure of the National Security Minister to furni"},"modified":"2019-02-19T22:00:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T22:00:48","slug":"ablakwa-readies-for-court-over-ministers-failure-to-brief-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/19\/ablakwa-readies-for-court-over-ministers-failure-to-brief-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Ablakwa readies for court over Minister\u2019s failure to brief Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs committee is set for court for what he describes as the failure of the National Security Minister to furnish Parliament with yearly reports on Ghana\u2019s intelligence agencies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">In a letter to the state\u2019s chief attorney, Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa noted: \u201cthe said minister after assumption of office has repeatedly omitted or refused to honour his obligations to Parliament.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Albert Kan Dapaah.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/750397536_570926.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:2px; height:344px; width:550px\"\/><br \/><i><b>Albert Kan Dapaah is being accused of dereliction of duty<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Mr. Ablakwa said his calls on the Speaker of Parliament to order the Minister to comply with the law and furnish parliament with the reports have produced no results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">\u201cSimilarly, the Ranking Member on Defense and Interior committee\u2026made several calls on the floor of parliament for the said Minister to submit the reports without any positive response,\u201d the letter added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3C0_N53KZEI\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The North Tongu Parliamentarian said he has resolved to go to court \u201cafter the stipulated one month notice has elapsed\u201d for an order to compel the Minister to respect parliament and furnish the House with the reports. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><b>See his notice below<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en-gb\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RoRzGBuhlE\">pic.twitter.com\/RoRzGBuhlE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa (@S_OkudzetoAblak) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/S_OkudzetoAblak\/status\/1097849475903733760?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">19 February 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10&appId=1559506714349564\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\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>The Ranking Member on Parliament\u2019s Foreign Affairs committee is set for court for what he describes as the failure of the National Security Minister to furnish Parliament with yearly reports on Ghana\u2019s intelligence agencies. 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