Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]inister for Parliamentary Affairs and Majority Leader in Parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has withdrawn the Special Prosecutor and Zongo Development Fund Bills from Parliament.
Minority Leader in Parliament, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu who has been demanding the withdrawal of the bill said it has now been withdrawn [ads1]the bill because was not improperly laid before the House.
According to the Constitution, a bill must be published and gazetted at least 14 days, before it will be deemed to have matured to be laid before the House.
However, the Deputy Attorney-General, Joseph Dindiok Kpemka under a certificate of urgency, laid the Bill last week only for it to be rejected three days later by the Constitutional, Legal Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament saying proper processes must be followed.
The committee made up of both NPP and NDC members said the Bill did not fall within the category of Bills brought before the House under a certificate of urgency.
The Bill is government’s quest to fighting corruption in the public sector.
