Debates of 15 Oct 2020

MR SPEAKER
PRAYERS 10:53 a.m.
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS AND THE OFFICIAL REPORT 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Hon Members, Correction of the Votes and Proceedings of Wednesday, 14th October, 2020.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Hon Members, we have the Official Report of Tuesday, 6th October, 2020 for correction.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Hon Members, as you are very much aware, we have decided to formerly leave here at 12 noon for the purpose of the one week
celebration of the Hon Member who has tragically departed.
At the Commencement of Public Business -- Presentation of Papers by the Hon Majority Leader.
Item numbered 4(a).
Majority Chief Whip (Mr Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh) 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, items 4 (a) and (b) are to be laid by the Hon Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and the Hon Minister for Inner-City and Zongo Development. They are unavoidably absent and so, I seek your leave to enable the Hon Alhaji Abu-Bakar Saddique Boniface to lay the Papers on their behalf.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
The leave is granted. Item listed 4(a).
PAPERS 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Item listed 4(b).
By the Minister of State at the Office of the Vice President (Alhaji Abu-Bakar Saddique Boniface) on behalf of (the Minister for Inner- City and Zongo Development) --
Zongo Development Fund Regulations, 2020.
Referred to the Subsidiary Legislation Committee.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Item numbered 4(c)(i) -- Hon Chairman of the Committee on Health?.
Mr Ameyaw-Cheremeh 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, the information is that those Reports are not ready. We could move to the item numbered 6 -- Complementary Education Agency Bill, 2019 at the Consideration Stage.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Hon Chief Whip, can we not proceed with the item numbered 5?
Mr Ameyaw-Cheremeh 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, in respect of the item numbered 5, the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice is not with us and the Hon Chairman and Hon Ranking Member of the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and
Parliamentary Affairs are also not with us presently. That is why I proposed that we take the item numbered 6.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
So, do you want us to go to the item numbered 6?
Mr Haruna Iddrisu 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, the item numbered 5 is the Second Reading of the Council of State Bill, 2020. I have communicated to the Hon Chief Whip and the Clerks-at- the-Table because it is such an important Bill, and it is the Second Reading, we probably would have to defer that to Tuesday, 20th October, 2020. I am consulting with the Hon Chief Whip.
The Hon Majority Leader had indicated to me that it was one of the urgent Bills he wanted us to consider and get done, but since he is not available, we can look at it on Tuesday, 20th October, 2019. We can complete the Consideration Stage of the Complementary Education Agency Bill, 2019. Mr Speaker, I am sure it is just left with two or three clauses to get that done.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Item listed 6 -- Complementary Education Agency Bill, 2019 at the Consideration Stage.
STAGE 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Item listed 6(i) -- new clause.
Chairman of the Committee (Mr William Agyapong Quaittoo) 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I beg to move, add the following new clause:
“Alternative certification programme
The Agency shall provide alternative certification programmes for purposes of awarding certificates that are equivalent to High School certificates.”
11. 03 a.m.
Mr Speaker, the reason is that the Committee agrees with the proponents of this Agency that if someone is not in the formal stream of education and pursues some course within the complementary education sector, it is good for the Agency to be able to award some certificates to persons who would be
able to go through a given course. Maybe, if the person completes a given course which would be equivalent to an award of certificate at the basic level, the person would get that, and even up to the secondary level, we think that the agency should be clothed with that authority to give certificates. And all these courses would be fashioned out by National Curriculum Assessment (NACA).
Mr Haruna Iddrisu 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, the principle, as I listened to the Hon Chairman, is good. My first difficulty is the headnote; “Alternative certification programme”. Just say certification. And the word, “alternative” should be deleted. We are simply saying that the agency shall award - not even provide certificates equivalent to high school for the beneficiaries of complementary education. In my view, that makes sense, but the plenty words; “alternative certification programme”, alternative to what?
What are we communicating? We are simply saying that we are clothing the Agency with the power to award the certificates, which certificates -- ? there too I have a disagreement but it is a policy matter. What they do in numeracy and literacy; is that high school? That is basic! Why are we giving them high school certificate and not basic school certificate? That would be my second difficulty.
Mr Speaker, but I think that we should just say certification. The Agency shall award certificates equivalent to high school for beneficiaries of complementary education. Then, we have something to go with so that the headnote would read, “Certification” or “Award of certificates”. But alternative certification programme, what is provide alternative? We want them to award certificates.
Mr Speaker, I used to, in the days of the Revolution, be a teacher for Non-Formal Education in a village called Pagazaa, Tamale, and it is true, they awarded some blue certificates which we gave out to the beneficiaries. At that time, it was voluntary; in the night, we would gather the adults and take them through some training. So, there are some certificates, and that one, the Ministry would determine the nature and form of the certificate.
If the Hon Chairman is amenable to accepting this, this is how I think it should be. We want to give them the power to award certificates; we should not qualify it as “alternative certificate”.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Hon Minority Leader, once more, the rendition.
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Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Hon Minority Chief Whip, also on the same matter? Very well.
Alhaji Muntaka 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I just believe that we need to abandon this amendment; it is very dangerous. I can see the Hon Deputy Minister for Education in the Chair.
Mr Speaker, happily, you are also an educationist. In our country, almost all the certificates that are awarded, whether at the basic level or at the secondary level, there is an alternative that is written outside school —
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
And an educationist in the range from primary school to the university. -- [Hear! Hear!] --
Alhaji Muntaka 10:53 a.m.
Yes, Mr Speaker is a professor educationist.
Mr Speaker, if we take the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), today, the West African Examination Council (WAEC) provides the alternative for private candidates to write. If someone has gone through the complementary education and he believes that he has gathered enough courage and material to be able to write the examination, let the person go and write the BECE
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Hon Minority Chief Whip, I think we all appreciate the principle at this stage, let us have a formulation that combines your joint views because if we have something like “award certificates equivalent to high school certificate but that concept is differently quite a laudable one. Shall we have it in the whole, either from the Hon Minority Chief Whip or the Hon Minority Leader so as to incorporate the concept that is being advocated?.
Mr Quaittoo 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, can we listen to the Hon Deputy Minister for Education on this subject?
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
No, I want the formulation first. I want one of the proposers, not a third person. At this stage, let the proposers put their heads together and give us a formula then we can work on that otherwise, we will all engage in just a discussion.
Hon Minority Leader, I hope you are helping the Hon Minority Chief Whip with a formula?.
Mr Iddrisu 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, we could improve it but while it is still a matter of policy, I believe strongly that they can award a certificate. We can define the nature of the certificate —
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Hon Minority Leader, you are going back to the certification.
Mr Iddrisu 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, the new rendition would read:
“The agency shall award certificates of participation for beneficiaries of its programme”.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
Not for participation only because I am not certain they tend to give certificate for mere participation. Would there be any kind of test?
Mr Iddrisu 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, is it examinable?
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
I think if we leave out “participation”, we shall be on — shall award certificates. They would go through their system of testing, examining or whatever and award certificates.
Mr Iddrisu 10:53 a.m.
Mr Speaker, it would read:
“The Agency shall award certificates for beneficiaries of the complementary education training programmes”.
Mr Speaker 10:53 a.m.
And I think that is broad and enough. They would devise their own means of testing and so on and so forth and award certificates.
Hon Chairman, do you agree?
Mr Quaittoo 11:13 a.m.
Mr Speaker, if you read it carefully, the emphasis is not on the awarding of the certificate but on providing alternative programmes. If you read it carefully, it says: “The Agency shall provide alternative certification programmes…”.
Mr Speaker 11:13 a.m.
So, “they shall provide programmes and award certificates”. Will that do?
Mr Quaittoo 11:13 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I still want the Hon Deputy Minister who is an authority in this area to speak on it.
Mr Speaker 11:13 a.m.
So, consult him and then let us know the formulation. I do not need justification again. What do you formulate, no more stories. After the story, what? “They shall provide programmes and award certificates”, that is all.
Whether it is university or polytechnic, the whole idea is to provide programmes and award certificates. Then the awarding authority will develop its own mechanisms, whether by laboratory test, by outreach programmes or whatever and when satisfied, award certificates. That is what we do in education.
Question put and amendment agreed to.

what you have suggested to the House to adopt, the new headnote would read: “Training programme and certification”?.
Mr Speaker 11:13 a.m.
Thank you very much, that flows. Hon Chairman, I am sure you have no objection.
Question put and amendment agreed to.
New clause -- Budget of a District Complementary Education Agency
Mr Quaittoo 11:13 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I beg to move, add the following new clause:
“Budget of a District Complementary Education Agency
The budget of a District Complementary Education Agency shall form part of the budget of the national office of the Agency.”
Mr Speaker 11:13 a.m.
Please let him finish.
Mr Quaittoo 11:13 a.m.
That is how we have always couched it.
“The budget of a District Complementary Education Agency shall form part of the budget of the national office of the Complementary Education Agency.”
Mr Speaker 11:13 a.m.
So, have you quickly amended what is here?
Mr Iddrisu 11:13 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I have a difficulty with the Hon Chairman's amendment but before I persuade him to abandon it, I would want him to go to the original Bill and show us where a budget was provided for the Agency itself?. We did not provide the budget for the Agency. I have gone through the Bill, so why would we provide for a district budget? I would only support the Hon Chairman if in the original Bill, there was provision for a budget for the Agency. However, the Hon Chairman is now tightening it with provision of a budget for district offices.
Mr Speaker, in any case, it is superfluous to do that. The Chairman of the Finance Committee would educate him that when you are preparing a budget and you have an office which has a national character,
you have a duty to your regional and national offices, yet we did not state so. When preparing a budget, it should be holistic, which must capture the expenses expected revenue and received funds of the Agency. However, to say that you want to create a new clause on the budget for districts --
Where is the budget for the regional and national offices? The Hon Chairman should show it to me in the original Bill. If it was not provided for, then he must abandon this amendment. It is not there because I have combed through the Bill. I see him looking through the Bill but there is no budget provided anywhere, so how can we then create a budget for district offices?.
Mr Speaker, as I said, assuming this Parliament had regional and district offices, we would not put in a Bill that there must be a budget for District Parliament Office for example. A budget is your estimate of what you expect to come in if it is revenue or income and how you expect to expend it. It is administrative and need not be provided for in the Bill at all. So, if the Hon Chairman finds it, then I stand convinced but if he does not, he may have to abandon it.
Alhaji Muntaka 11:13 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I just want to add, so that you can respond to us. I do not agree with the Hon Minority Leader because if you look at clause 19 of the Bill, it talks about the funds of the Agency. In talking about the funds of the Agency, it is very clear as it talks about moneys approved by Parliament. So, when the Ministry of Education brings its budget, part of it would be designated for this Agency which Parliament would approve. That is the source of money for the operation of these agencies. So, when in clause 19, we talk about their funds and say:
“Funds of the Agency
19. The funds of the Agency include
(a) moneys approved by Parliament;
(b) fees charged and collected in the performance of the functions of the Agency;
(c) donations, grants and gifts; and
(d) any other moneys approved by the Minister responsible for Finance.”
I believe that we have adequately provided for this Agency and how it
Mr Iddrisu 11:13 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I have listened to the Hon Minority Chief Whip, Alhaji Muntaka. He does not belong to the old school of drafting, neither does he belong to the modern school of drafting. There is a difference between funds of the agency --
Mr Speaker 11:13 a.m.
Where do you belong to? [Laughter]
Mr Iddrisu 11:23 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I was going to tease him that what he has advocated for is the Asawase school of thought in drafting. It is better than the Kulikuli School or Tamale South one. [Laughter]

On a more serious note, funds for the Agency is to recognise that this is a public entity to be funded from public resources. That is the essence of clause 19 -- that this Agency shall depend on approved public resources.

However, with regard to the Hon Chairman's amendment on “Budget of a District Complementary Education Agency”, my first question is, did they provide for budget for national and regional offices of complementary education? No. So the Hon Minority Chief Whip, has mixed two issues. This institution would benefit from the Consolidated Fund and that is the essence of clause 19 -- that public resources is legitimately lawful tomorrow if they depend on it. However, they cannot provide budget for a district when they have not said so for national and regional --

Mr Speaker, you are a trained constitutional lawyer; the espresso minus rule -- they should express it if they want budget for national and regional offices. They have not said so and they want to create a budget for the district. This could endanger conflict. So, how would the regional and national offices spend? These are administrative, so as said by the Hon

Minority Chief Whip and the Hon Chairman of the Committee, we do not need a budget for District Complementary Education Agency. Even those ones are administrative. Once a certain amount of money is released -- we know we have compensation. For example, item one is the payment of staff, which would come from clause 19 -- approved from public resources. If they have to do training, the cost of training would be borne by the provision in clause

19.
Mr Speaker, I want the Hon Minority Chief Whip to read the clause again. It says 11:23 a.m.
“Budget of a District Complementary Education Agency''.
The budget of a District Complementary Education Agency shall form part of the budget of the national office of the Agency''.
Mr Speaker, we have not provided in this Bill, a budget for the national office, so it is superfluous.
Mr Speaker 11:23 a.m.
Hon Members, if we were even out of the abundance of caution to provide for -- if their own budgets would be provided for by appropriate budget resources, would that satisfy you?
Mr Speaker 11:23 a.m.
What you have said is very true. We do not use cunning nomenclatures of ministries and so on. Nevertheless, if you speak of appropriate budget resources then of course, the districts would make provisions and send them accordingly without us having any headaches.
Dr Assibey-Yeboah 11:23 a.m.
Mr Speaker, the Hon Minority Leader does not have any issues with clause 19 -- [Interruption] -- because he has not said so. I have gone through the Votes and Proceedings of yesterday, Wednesday, 14th October, 2020 and the amendment he moved had no such provision for the region. A regional office was created but not the amendment he has moved now as regards “budgets of a district - [Interruption] -- It is in the Bill. I referred to the Votes and Proceedings of yesterday, Wednesday, 14th October, 2020 because he said there was an amendment that was moved for the region.
Mr Speaker, we do not need that provision for a budget for the regions and the districts. If we moved that amendment yesterday, it should be deleted from the Bill.
Mr Iddrisu 11:23 a.m.
Mr Speaker, you would recall that I premised my argument that the Hon Chairman must
share with me, where provision has been made in this Bill for a regional budget. The Hon Ranking Member of the Committee referred me to clause 31 and indeed, there is budget for regional complementary education. So, my objection has been withdrawn. There could be budget for district but once the regional has been provided for, I have no difficulty to accept a budget for the district. That was why in my argument, I asked the Hon Chairman to share with me where in the Bill there was provision for regional. So I abandon my proposition.
Mr Speaker 11:23 a.m.
The Hon Minority Leader, was very right. He wanted to be convinced of a certain inclusion. If he had been convinced earlier, he would have been satisfied but now he says with the latest argument, he is satisfied.
Hon Chairman, so where do we go from here?
Mr Quaittoo 11:23 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I wanted to gather all their arguments and provide answers. The Hon Minority Chief Whip said that he had not seen a Bill in this House, where provision was made for regional and district budgets. A number of education Bills that have been passed
in this House are almost like this and we have done regional and district budgets for them just as we have in this Bill.
Mr Speaker 11:23 a.m.
Hon Minority Leader, have you accepted the amendment?
Mr Iddrisu 11:23 a.m.
Yes, Mr Speaker.
Question put and amendment agreed to.
New Clause -- Transitional Provisions
Mr Quaittoo 11:23 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I beg to move, add the following new clause:
(1) The rights, assets, liabilities and properties vested in the Non-Formal Education Division of the Ministry immediately before the coming into force of this Act are transferred to the Complementary Education Agency established under section 1 of this Act.
(2) Moneys in a bank account held by or on behalf of the Non-Formal Education Division of the Ministry immediately before the coming into force of this Act is transferred to the Agency established under this Act.
Mr Peter Nortsu-Kotoe 11:23 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I support the proposed amendment because we want to transit non-formal education to complementary education agency, where there are staff already. So, if there is no provision to safeguard their continual employment, there would be a challenge.
Mr Iddrisu 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I support the transitional provisions to save the actions, activities, contracts and engagements of the previous non- formal education unit. However, my difficulty is with the third words; “the rights'' in the opening of subclause (1). What does that mean? We could say “the assets, liabilities and properties'' and not “the rights''. We have always drafted transitional provisions and we do not put in “the rights''.

What rights? Clerks-at-the-Table, the “rights” is a no. The Transitional Provisions, subclause (1) should read:

“The assets, liabilities and properties vested in --”

If we would want to add “contracts” that is fine but “rights” is a no.

Delete “rights” and the rest would fly.
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
Hon Minority Leader, we are with you.
Now, Hon Chairman of the Committee, one minute; perhaps when the Hon Minority Chief Whip speaks, it would help you to kill two birds with a stone.
Alhaji Muntaka 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I thank you.
The Transitional Provision is all right except to say that we have not added that their staff --
The reason we must add their staff is to show that the non-formal education is just the name that is changing to Complementary Education Agency so that in the future when this Bill becomes an Act,
people do not lose their jobs by simply saying that it is only their properties and assets that have moved to us but not the personnel. So, I think the Hon Chairman of the Committee in deleting “rights” should add “staff” to make it complete so that nobody loses his or her job simply because the name has changed.
Mr Quaittoo 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I think that “rights” should still be there because the Agency --
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
What about staff?
Mr Quaittoo 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, we argued about staff and it was the view of the Hon Minister that many of the staff would have to re-apply and come back into the new Agency properly.
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
What would they have to do?
Mr Quaittoo 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, they would have to re-apply. [Uproar]
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
Who is bringing about this; why?
Mr Quaittoo 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I wish --
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
If you intend to let them re-apply, then, in fact, you cannot
in the same vein talk about the “rights” because they would tell you they have the right to employment. So, you would be contradicting yourself in that very provision.
Is it not supposed to be a punitive measure? If somebody is by any chance at the wrong place, justifiably so, you can take action against the person but you cannot provide for that as part of the law.
Alhaji Muntaka 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I would move a further amendment that in line 1, after “rights” add “staff” so that the new rendition would read:
(1) The rights, staff, assets, liabilities and properties vested in the Non-Formal Education Division of the Ministry immediately before the coming into force of this Act are transferred to the Complementary Education Agency established under section 1 of this Act.”
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
Hon Chairman of the Committee, do not feel left out; speak up but I hope this time, you have got the mood of the House. This is not going to be a punitive measure.
Please, go ahead.
Mr Quaittoo 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I think that we should not just add the word “staff”. There is a better rendition here. In fact, it was formally part of the Transitional Provisions here, and if you saw yesterday's Order Paper, the subclause (3) of this same Transitional Provisions read:
“An officer of the Non-Formal Education Division of the Ministry immediately before the coming into force of this Act shall on the coming into force of this Act be deemed to have been duly employed.”
Mr Speaker, so, we have a clause which we can just insert there.
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
And that is the more reason you cannot bring this --
Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with you emphasising issues concerning rights and liabilities. That is fine but please do not tell us you want some provision to be able to review and sack some people or whatever.
So, we have crossed that bridge; formulate subclause (1) for us and let us end it.
Mr Quaittoo 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, so, with the Transitional Provisions, subclause (1) would stay as it is;
subclause (2) would stay and then a new subclause would come as subclause (3):
“An officer of the Non-Formal Education Division of the Ministry immediately before the coming into force of this Act shall on the coming into force of this Act be deemed to have been duly employed by the Agency established under this Act on the terms and conditions which are not less favourable in aggregate to the terms and conditions attached to the post held by that officer immediately before the coming into force of this Act.”
Mr Speaker, so, that is the subclause.
Mr Haruna Iddrisu 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, that is agreeable. So, it means that we are saving both personnel who are already in the employment of the Non- Formal Education Division and transferring same to the new Agency created for the purposes of complementary education.
I support the additional amendment of the Hon Chairman of the Committee.
Question put and amendment agreed to.
Mr Quaittoo 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, that brings us to the end of the proposed amendments on the Complementary Education Agency Bill, 2019. So, you may put the Question on the entire new clause that we have put in.
Question put and amendment agreed to.
The New Clause as amended ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
What else is left for us apart from the Long Title? Can we go on to the Long Title?
Mr Quaittoo 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, yes, we can go on with it.
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
I see that there is some consultation. Let us wait a moment and see.
Long Title -- AN ACT to establish the Complementary Education Agency to oversee the administration of complementary education and to provide for related matters.
Mr Haruna Iddrisu 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, in drafting, we are taught that the Long Title would be a summary of the intentions expressed in the Bill. When we come to the Objects of the Agency, we emphasise quality complementary education to oversee the administration -- I would have
inserted “provision and administration of quality complementary education”.
I am wondering whether we would want to find it expressed in the Long Title. We are just talking about administration which is different and that is where we are talking about national, regional and district offices but they have a duty to provide.
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
Hon Minority Leader, we have got the principle. What word would you like to add?
Mr Haruna Iddrisu 11:33 a.m.
With your leave and indulgence, I would like it to read:
“AN ACT to establish the Complementary Education Agency to oversee the provision and administration of quality complementary education and to provide for related matters.”
Mr Speaker 11:33 a.m.
Hon Chairman of the Committee, are you agreeable?
Mr Quaittoo 11:33 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I think he expressed the same sentiments when we came to the Objects of the Agency. So, if he wants it to reflect the Long Title, I do agree.
Question put and amendment agreed to.

The Long Title as amended ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Mr Speaker 11:43 a.m.
Chairman of the Committee?
Question put and amendment agreed to.
Hon Chairman?
Mr Quaittoo 11:43 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I am done with my proposed amendments and I think --
Mr Speaker 11:43 a.m.
Are you done with
-- ?
Mr Quaittoo 11:43 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I mean the agenda for the day and I think that the Hon Minister for Works and Housing is not here. This is because we have -- [Interruption] --
Mr Speaker 11:43 a.m.
Hon Chairman, please, if all you have has been exhausted, forget about what someone might have wanted to do so that we can finish with the Consideration Stage. That person can come back later.
Mr Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah 11:43 a.m.
Mr Speaker, we were told yesterday that there will be a programme for the whole of the House to pay a visit to our deceased Hon Colleague. Therefore, the Committee on Works
and Housing decided that since we will finish at 12 noon, we may take ours tomorrow and that is why we do not see the Hon Minister and Hon Chairman of the Committee here.
Mr Speaker 11:43 a.m.
Whatever it is, in Ga, we say; “you run with those you got”. So, this brings us to the end of the Consideration Stage of the Complementary Education Agency Bill, 2019.
Thank you very much.
Hon Leaders, can we have an indication so that we can go and get ready for the other matter ahead of us?
Mr Quaittoo 11:43 a.m.
Mr Speaker, due to the time and the fact that we want to go for our deceased Hon Colleague's one week funeral celebration, I guess we can now bring proceedings to a close and seek your leave to adjourn.
Mr Speaker, I am moving the motion for proceedings to be brought to a close -- [Laughter] --
Mr Speaker 11:43 a.m.
Please, do it right. Yes, Hon Majority Chief Whip?
Mr Kwasi Ameyaw-Cheremeh 11:43 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I beg to move that this
House do adjourn to tomorrow at 10 o'clock in the forenoon in view of the fact that we have to go to Mfantseman to attend the one-week observation of our Hon Colleague who unfortunately passed on last week.
Alhaji Muntaka 11:43 a.m.
Mr Speaker, I beg to second the Motion.
ADJOURNMENT 11:43 a.m.
  • The House was accordingly adjourned at 11.47 a.m. till Friday, 16th October, 2020 at 10.00 a.m.