The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has directed the Special Budget Committee to demand clarity from the Electoral Commission (EC) on its plans to create the Guan Constituency.
It has emerged that the constitutional instrument for the creation of the new constituency is currently before the Attorney General’s Department.
It came up during the consideration of the estimates of the Electoral Commission for 2022.
The Speaker is standing clear timelines and a roadmap for the creation of the constituency.
“I want the Special Budget Committee to take it up and make sure that the instrument that we are told is before the AG’s department is presented before the House within a specified period. This is an urgent matter. The people of SALL will have to be represented in this Parliament. I take a serious view of this. I am directing that the Committee should take this matter up.”
The electoral body failed to organize an election for registered voters in the Guan District to elect an MP during the 2020 polls.
This wad due to the absence of a constituency.
The C.I. needed to create the constituency could not mature in the 7th Parliament.
The Guan District consists of the Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi (SALL) traditional areas.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
