{"id":600992,"date":"2019-03-21T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 -->\n<!-- <div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div> -->\n<!-- 22nd March (1month) -->\n<div style=\"float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:2"},"modified":"2019-03-21T12:12:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:12:57","slug":"only-15-mps-show-up-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/21\/only-15-mps-show-up-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Only 15 MPs show up in parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 --><br \/>\n<!-- \n\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1550929497923-0' style='float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;'>\n\n<\/div>\n\n --><br \/>\n<!-- 22nd March (1month) --><\/p>\n<div style=\"float:right;z-index: 996;height:340px; width:250px;\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/glauc-new.jpg\"\/>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Speaker of Ghana\u2019s Parliament has urged MPs to take the sitting of the house seriously. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Prof. Mike Ocquaye who was troubled by the fact that only about 15 MPs were present on the floor when sitting commenced Thursday added that MPs need to prioritise sitting at the plenary over anything else.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-1 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cIn a way, we have an appointment with the good people of Ghana, particularly the young ones, who come to listen to their Parliament,\u201d he said watching a near-empty parliament and a packed gallery. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u201cI will pray that we take this obligation seriously. If we take our nation seriously we will take this obligation seriously,\u201d Speaker said Thursday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-2 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"speaker of parliament\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/2632367772619_5428189491749.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">When sitting commenced, Health Minister Kwaku Agyemang Manu was absent to respond to questions. Majority Chief Whip Ameyaw Kyeremeh told the house he was unable to reach the minister for explanation on why he could not show up.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">\u00a0Minority Leader Haruna Iddri<\/span><\/span>su urged ministers to take the house seriously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"parliament 1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/317366791319_1447654938532.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:3px; height:96%; width:600px\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">More soon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><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>Speaker of Ghana\u2019s Parliament has urged MPs to take the sitting of the house seriously. Prof. Mike Ocquaye who was troubled by the fact that only about 15 MPs were present on the floor when sitting commenced Thursday added that MPs need to prioritise sitting at the plenary over anything else. \u201cIn a way, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":600993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600992","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>Only 15 MPs show up in parliament - 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\/03\/21\/only-15-mps-show-up-in-parliament\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Only 15 MPs show up in parliament - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Speaker of Ghana\u2019s Parliament has urged MPs to take the sitting of the house seriously. 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