{"id":1096704,"date":"2022-05-23T15:30:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/23\/second-session-of-the-8th-parliament-begins-on-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2022-05-23T15:30:06","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:30:06","slug":"second-session-of-the-8th-parliament-begins-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/23\/second-session-of-the-8th-parliament-begins-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Second session of the 8th Parliament begins on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\n                                                   Accra, May 23, GNA &#8211; Parliament will resume from recess on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 to begin the second meeting of the second session of the 8th Parliament.<\/p>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/1.21472662.jpg\" width=\"100%\" height=\"\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" class=\"kMediaObject\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">A communication signed by Mr Cyril Kwabena Nsiah, Clerk to Parliament, and issued to the Ghana News Agency on Monday, said proceedings would start at 10 am.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">&#8220;The meeting will run till early August before Parliament goes on another recess.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">&#8220;Traditionally, the second meeting is the time for the consideration of government programmes and bills,&#8221; the statement said.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">He said that a Mid-year budget review from Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance, was also expected to be delivered in July.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">Before the House went on recess, some Minority Members of Parliament expressed concern over the continuous failure of Mr Ofori-Atta to honour invitations of the House to answer questions posed by legislators.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The lawmakers said they were unhappy that the Minister failed to attend to the house to respond to dozens of questions piled up for him.<\/div>\n<div class=\"kMultiLine\">The first meeting of the second session of the 8th Parliament adjourned on Tuesday, April 5, 2022.<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra, May 23, GNA &#8211; Parliament will resume from recess on Tuesday, May 24, 2022 to begin the second meeting of the second session of the 8th Parliament. A communication signed by Mr Cyril Kwabena Nsiah, Clerk to Parliament, and issued to the Ghana News Agency on Monday, said proceedings would start at 10 am. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[6123,716,2073,2065,1449],"class_list":["post-1096704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics","tag-8th","tag-begins","tag-parliament","tag-session","tag-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}