Information Minister, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has denied reports that President Akufo-Addo has condemned the $200M new parliamentary chamber.
The Daily Statesman had reported that the President opposed the project.
“The President is intent on ensuring that the government focuses on its priority projects – roads, education and training, agriculture, rural development, water, and housing. The proposal for this building project hasn’t even come to cabinet for discussion, let alone been given cabinet approval," the newspaper reported.
However, speaking on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo', Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said there is no information to that effect from the Presidency.
"I don't believe that will be true . . . I have not seen any brief to that effect . . . I know that Parliament being a seperate and independent arm of government, it will be difficult for the president to intervene," he told Nana Yaw Kesse.
Listen to his interview below
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Hanson, do you want the president to be interfering in parliamentary affairs? Then next will be judiciary and then electoral commission? Please leave the president out of that. The president is busily building Ghana and shouldn’t be distracted with trivial issues such as building a new parliament chamber. By the way is that not part of the development we are looking for? Why are NDC people like distractive tactics like that. #NEW PARLIAMENT CHAMBER NOW!
Stop speaking like a child. What do you mean nana addo cannot do anything about this? If you want the party to go back to opposition then keep saying this nun sense. Ghanaians are saying drop that chamber, a wise president will call the leadership of parliament and discuss with them the way to drop that chamber instead of coming to tell us this ***barred word*** that the president cannot do anything about it. Are we serious! We don't need your lectures about the three arms of government.