Members of Parliament (MPs) are to reconvene tomorrow, January 29, 2019 to begin the first meeting of the third session of the seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic.
A letter signed by the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Aaron Oquaye, said “in the exercise of the powers conferred on the Speaker by clause (1) of Article 112 of the Constitution, I, Professor Oquaye, by this Constitutional Instrument, appoint Parliament House Accra, to be the place, and 10 o’clock in the forenoon of Tuesday, January 29, 2019 to be the time at which the third session of the seventh Parliament of the Fourth Republic shall commence.”
The legislators are expected to consider and pass a number of bills into law during the third session.
The Right to Information Bill (RTI), which reached the consideration stage during the second session, is billed to be passed into law when the House resumes.
They will also be required to consider and approve financial agreements, contracts and ratify some conventions during the third session.
State of Nation Address
All eyes will be on Parliament within the first two weeks of the resumption of the first meeting of the third session as President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to deliver the state of the nation address to Parliament.
He will be stating the current state of the country’s economy and outline his projects and programmes for the year.
The Minister of Finance will also present the mid-year budget and consequently present the 2020 budget by the end of the third session.
The Fourth Session of Parliament, which will be the final Session for the current seventh Parliament, will begin in 2020 and end on the midnight of January 6, 2021. There are three meetings in a Session.
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