{"id":35325,"date":"2023-06-22T19:16:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T19:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=35325"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:17:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:17:30","slug":"bagbin-summons-ofori-atta-and-asenso-boakye-over-recent-flooding-in-accra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/22\/bagbin-summons-ofori-atta-and-asenso-boakye-over-recent-flooding-in-accra\/","title":{"rendered":"Bagbin summons Ofori-Atta and Asenso-Boakye over recent flooding in Accra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>The Speaker of Parliament, Alban S.K.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/06\/13\/bagbin-calls-for-strategic-action-to-improve-democratic-governance-in-ghana\/\" title=\"Bagbin calls for strategic action to improve democratic governance in Ghana\"> Bagbin<\/a> has summoned the Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye, and the Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta, to appear before the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They are to brief the House on measures taken against <a href=\"https:\/\/myjoyonline.com\/bagbin-summons-ofori-atta-and-asenso-boakye-over-recent-flooding-in-accra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"flooding\">flooding<\/a> in parts of the country latest by next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the former Nadowli-Kaleo MP, the summoned ministers are to provide details on how the government intends to deal with\u00a0the\u00a0canker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMinister responsible for Works and Housing be programmed by the Business Committee to appear before the House together with the Minister of Finance to give us a brief on the action being taken to make this a thing of the past, and so we expect that at latest before the end of next week, these ministers should appear before us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf the substantive minister is not there, there is a minister of state at the Ministry that can come and represent him, and this is a very important matter and one of the ways we could support national leadership to find a solution is for us to pass the budget Act.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Bagbin added that the continuous recurrence of the problem should be a cause for concern for all.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is a very important subject matter because since I entered Parliament in 1993, we have had so many statements of this nature almost every year, and we are not finding solutions to the problem. I think it starts from the priority settings, and Parliament must be involved and not wait until a month to the end of the year and the budget is thrust upon, and you have no time to talk about even increasing budget allocations,\u201d the Speaker added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Speaker\u2019s order followed a statement on the floor of parliament by the Minority Chief Whip, Governs Agbodza.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Adaklu MP in his statement disclosed that a woman and her two children are missing, with others injured and property destroyed as a result of the flooding in Accra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Speaker of Parliament, Alban S.K. Bagbin has summoned the Minister for Works and Housing, Francis Asenso-Boakye, and the Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta, to appear before the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[4553,11600,4472,5249,287,12354,5787,7172,2264,11715,11111,483,9974,6864,6831,278,1153,11973,1198,5646,6544,9277,5635,6348,5273],"class_list":["post-35325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-accra","tag-adaklu","tag-alban-s-k-bagbin","tag-budget","tag-children","tag-finance","tag-flood","tag-francis-asenso-boakye","tag-government","tag-housing","tag-injured","tag-ken-ofori-atta","tag-leadership","tag-ministers","tag-missing","tag-mp","tag-ofori-atta","tag-one","tag-parliament","tag-priority","tag-property","tag-speaker","tag-speaker-of-parliament","tag-us","tag-woman"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50807,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35325\/revisions\/50807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}