{"id":740009,"date":"2022-01-08T03:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T03:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/parliament-reconvenes-on-january-25\/"},"modified":"2022-01-08T03:13:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T03:13:21","slug":"parliament-reconvenes-on-january-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/08\/parliament-reconvenes-on-january-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament reconvenes on January 25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/73558722.295.jpg\" alt=\"Parliament in session | File photo\" title=\"Parliament in session | File photo\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Parliament in session | File photo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">Parliament will reconvene for the Second Session of the Eighth Parliament on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, a week\u2019s extension of the January 18 date announced when the House adjourned for the Christmas break.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the Public Affairs Directorate entreated all Members of Parliament (MPs) and staff of the Parliamentary Service to take note.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that on Tuesday, December 21, 2021, Parliament adjourned sitting to resume on January 18, 2022, after the disagreement over the passage of the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) Bill on Monday, December 20.<\/p>\n<p>The Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, moved that day for the House to adjourn to January 18 to allow for cooler heads to prevail, adding that members would go back to transact parliamentary business in a much more serene environment.<\/p>\n<p>Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, who seconded the motion, agreed that the House be adjourned for further consultations on outstanding issues.<\/p>\n<p>The First Deputy Speaker, Mr Joseph Osei-Owusu, sat in for Speaker Alban Bagbin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament in session | File photo Parliament will reconvene for the Second Session of the Eighth Parliament on Tuesday, January 25, 2022, a week\u2019s extension of the January 18 date announced when the House adjourned for the Christmas break. A statement issued by the Public Affairs Directorate entreated all Members of Parliament (MPs) and staff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":740010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740009","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=740009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}