{"id":1253104,"date":"2022-11-18T07:07:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T07:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/ive-not-banned-the-use-of-phones-in-parliament\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T07:07:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T07:07:05","slug":"ive-not-banned-the-use-of-phones-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/ive-not-banned-the-use-of-phones-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve not banned the use of phones in Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has denied banning the use of mobile phones in the gallery of the House.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Daily Guide in a publication claimed that the Speaker of Parliament had issued a directive banning the use of mobile phones in Parliament as part of enhanced security measures.<\/p>\n<p>But a statement issued by the Office of the Speaker of Parliament rejected the report, describing it as false.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Speaker has issued no such directive banning the use of phones in Parliament,\u201d the office said in the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bagbin\u2019s office also said, \u201cno member of Parliament has been stopped from using his phone in the chamber.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe press corps who operate from the press gallery have equally not received any directive banning them from using their phones in the execution of their functions as parliamentary reporters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There have been suggestions in the past for MPs to be banned from using their phones in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-895254\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-11-17-at-9.54.37-PM.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"909\" height=\"1280\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>In 2020, the Majority Leader remarked that phones were a source of distractions during proceedings in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"dL2rNmA-IJQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u2018Managing this Parliament has been difficult\u2019 \u2013 Alban Bagbin\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dL2rNmA-IJQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has denied banning the use of mobile phones in the gallery of the House. This comes after Daily Guide in a publication claimed that the Speaker of Parliament had issued a directive banning the use of mobile phones in Parliament as part of enhanced security measures. But a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253104","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=1253104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}