{"id":653139,"date":"2019-07-09T16:41:02","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>President Nana Akufo-addo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parliament is no longer pursuing plans to\nconstruct a 450-seater chamber for Members of Parliament (MPs) at the cost of $200\nmillion which has sparked huge public uproar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presi"},"modified":"2019-07-09T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T16:41:02","slug":"nana-says-no-to-mps-chamber-its-not-on-our-radar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/09\/nana-says-no-to-mps-chamber-its-not-on-our-radar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Says No To MPs Chamber; It\u2019s Not On Our Radar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>President Nana Akufo-addo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parliament is no longer pursuing plans to<br \/>\nconstruct a 450-seater chamber for Members of Parliament (MPs) at the cost of $200<br \/>\nmillion which has sparked huge public uproar.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo is also reported not to be<br \/>\nin favour of the project saying \u201cit is not on the country\u2019s radar currently\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has said<br \/>\nCabinet has not received proposal from the Legislature concerning the chamber<br \/>\nfor consideration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe executive arm of government has not been<br \/>\nengaged on this new chamber at all. Nana Akufo-Addo has not gone to cut sod for<br \/>\nany new chamber. The Finance Minister also has not released money for a new<br \/>\nchamber, so the claim that money has been made available for the new parliament<br \/>\nconstruction is not true. The allocation was for some works in Parliament and<br \/>\nit was clear in the budget,\u201d he said on <em>Starr<br \/>\nFM<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No Agenda<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Acting Director of Public Affairs of Parliament,<br \/>\nKate Addo, said on radio yesterday that Parliament is no longer pursuing the<br \/>\nagenda of constructing a new chamber.<\/p>\n<p>She said on <em>Peace<br \/>\nFM<\/em> that plans had not been concluded that Parliament was going to build a<br \/>\nnew chamber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no chamber to drop because it is not<br \/>\ngoing ahead,\u201d she said, stressing that even though there is the need for a new<br \/>\nchamber block for parliamentarians if Ghanaians are against it \u201cwe are not<br \/>\ngoing to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thinking that it was a very lofty idea, obviously if it did<br \/>\nnot go down well with the people, we are ready to accept but it doesn\u2019t mean<br \/>\nthe need was or is not there. It is just that it is not one of the things<br \/>\nGhanaians are looking for now,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Majority Leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quite in the same vein, the Majority Leader, Osei<br \/>\nKyei-Mensah-Bonsu, at a press briefing, indicated that Parliament was ready to<br \/>\nlisten to the interest of Ghanaians before a final decision would be taken on<br \/>\nthe construction of the proposed 450-seater new chamber block for<br \/>\nparliamentarians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would strongly suggest that if the people we represent insist<br \/>\nstrongly that we shelve this idea of a new chamber, why not? We would do it<br \/>\nbecause after all, we represent them and cannot force anything on them,\u201d the<br \/>\nmajority leader said at the press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>When Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu was contacted on the idea of abandoning the project yesterday, he said that the Parliamentary Service Board was scheduled to meet at 5 pm yesterday to take a final decision on that and when that is done it would be communicated to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Thomas Fosu Jnr<\/strong> <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-addo Parliament is no longer pursuing plans to construct a 450-seater chamber for Members of Parliament (MPs) at the cost of $200 million which has sparked huge public uproar. President Akufo-Addo is also reported not to be in favour of the project saying \u201cit is not on the country\u2019s radar currently\u201d. Information Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":649723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653139","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>Nana Says No To MPs Chamber; It\u2019s Not On Our Radar - 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\/07\/09\/nana-says-no-to-mps-chamber-its-not-on-our-radar\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nana Says No To MPs Chamber; It\u2019s Not On Our Radar - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"President Nana Akufo-addo Parliament is no longer pursuing plans to construct a 450-seater chamber for Members of Parliament (MPs) at the cost of $200 million which has sparked huge public uproar. 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