Four MPs agree to work with Majority

The issue came up after Dr Kunbuor had read a report which he and the Minority Leader, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, co-signed on the meeting of the leadership on the formula for the composition of the membership of committees, parliamentary delegations, other parliamentary groups and associations and membership of the committee of selection.

Dr Kunbour said in pursuance to Order 153, every member must belong to at least one standing committee, adding that the current membership stood at Majority (NDC) 146, Minority (NPP) 123, PNC, 1, and three Independent members.

He said that the leadership after deliberations recommended that in accordance with established practice and having regard to Order 154, the composition of the Committees and in all other Parliamentary delegations, groupings and association be based on the ratio 55 and 45 per cent for the majority and minority respectively.

He said considering the urgency of the work of the Committee of Selection as well as the Business and Appointment Committees in the facilitation of business of the House and that of government, work on the composition of the three committees should be concluded by Friday, January 11, 2013.

According to Dr Kunbour, the Committee on Selection, with the Speaker as Chairperson and 19 other members, should comprise 10 members from the Majority caucus and nine from Minority caucus in accordance with the agreed ratio of 55:45

Proposed members for the Committee of Selection are Dr Benjamin Kunbuor, Mr Cletus Apul Avoka, Alhaji Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, Hajia Mary Salifu Boforo, Mr Joseph Appiah Boateng, Mr Alfred Kwame Agbesi, Dr Hannah Louis Bisiw, Mr James Avedzi, Mr Samson Ahi, Mr Abeiku Crentsil, Mr Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, Mr Dominic Nitiwul, Mr Daniel Botwe, Mrs Irene Naa Torshie Addo, Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, Mr Papa Owusu-Ankomah, Mr Benjamin Kofi Ayeh, Mr Boniface Gambila Adagbila and Mrs Ama Pomaa Andoh.

GNA