Breaking: Speaker declares Agona West, Fomena, two other seats vacant

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has today declared four seats in parliament as vacant.

This follows a motion filed by former Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu.

He argued that the MPs, who are seeking to contest the upcoming December elections as independent candidates, must renounce their parliamentary positions as outlined in the constitutional provisions governing parliamentary membership.

The affected MPs are Cynthia Morrison (Agona West), Kojo Asante (Suhum), Andrew Asiamah (Fomena), and Peter Kwakye Ackah (Amenfi Central).

Ruling on the matter in Parliament today, Bagbin stated that “Honourable members it is important to point that the speaker is called upon by the standing orders of parliament particularly order 18 to inform the house of the occurrence of a vacancy of the seat of a member under clause (1) b to e, g and h of article 97 of the constitution.”

He added, that the “Accordingly, I will proceed to inform the house that by the notification of the polls the following MPs are by their actions vacated their seats in parliament.”

By Edem Mensah-Tsotorme