The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has indicated that the Chamber of House will be locked at 10 a.m. each sitting day effective the next meeting of the fourth session of the eighth parliament in January.
This, the Speaker explained, would be one of the measures his outfit would be putting in place to check lateness to the House.
“Honourable Members, those who arrive late will be locked out until the Speaker decides to open the doors again. At 10:00 hours, the doors will be locked. The Speaker will be in, and it will take some time before the doors will be opened. Not that they will not be opened but it will take some time.
“And so if you will not be able to comply with it, let us all agree that we will start sitting in the afternoon, from 14:00 hours or 16:00 hours. The Committees will have their meetings in the morning; reports will be ready for us to consider in the afternoon; and then by the time we adjourn around 2000 hours the traffic situation will have improved,” he said.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has given the indication that the Chamber of House will be locked at 10 a.m. each sitting day effective the next meeting of the fourth session of the eighth parliament in January.
This, the Speaker explained, would be one of the measures his outfit would be putting in place to check lateness to the House.
“Honourable Members, those who arrive late will be locked out until the Speaker decides to open the doors again. At 10:00 hours, the doors will be locked. The Speaker will be in, and it will take some time before the doors will be opened. Not that they will not be opened but it will take some time.
“And so if you will not be able to comply with it, let us all agree that we will start sitting in the afternoon, from 14:00 hours or 16:00 hours. The Committees will have their meetings in the morning; reports will be ready for us to consider in the afternoon; and then by the time we adjourn around 2000 hours the traffic situation will have improved,” he said.