{"id":1253935,"date":"2022-11-19T10:22:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T10:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/19\/i-didnt-give-phone-ban-directive-bagbin\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T10:22:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T10:22:40","slug":"i-didnt-give-phone-ban-directive-bagbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/19\/i-didnt-give-phone-ban-directive-bagbin\/","title":{"rendered":"I Didn&#8217;t Give Phone Ban Directive &#8211; Bagbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>SPEAKER OF Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has denied banning the use of smartphones in Parliament, asserting he has issued no such directive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Speaker has issued no such directive banning the use of phones in Parliament. No Member of Parliament has been stopped from using his phone in the Chamber,\u201d a statement from the Speaker\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The statement, signed by Gayheart Edem Mensah, Communication Director, indicated that members of the 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Speaker\u2019s Office remains accessible to the press for purposes of clarification on any issue of interest to them,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe entreat all well-meaning Ghanaians to disregard the wrong and misleading publication, which seeks to speak ill of the Rt. Hon. Speaker\u2019s image and reputation by the false claim in the headline,\u201d the statement concluded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Ernest Kofi Adu, Parliament House<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 SPEAKER OF Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has denied banning the use of smartphones in Parliament, asserting he has issued no such directive. \u201cMr. Speaker has issued no such directive banning the use of phones in Parliament. No Member of Parliament has been stopped from using his phone in the Chamber,\u201d a statement from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1211813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253935","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\/1253935","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=1253935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}