Invite our comments, inputs into Bills- GBA to Speaker
This was disclosed on March 30, 2023, when a three-member delegation of the National Executives of the Association paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of Parliament.
When passing certain key bills, the Parliament of Ghana usually invites experts to Committee meetings to provide their input.
Additionally, the house receives memoranda and organizes public fora to solicit the views of interested persons and well-meaning Ghanaians as was seen in the case of the Anti-LGBTQI+ Bill.
It is in view of the above that the Ghana Bar Association has made a request for its views and inputs to be solicited in the drafting of the bills during the various stages of lawmaking.
This was disclosed on March 30, 2023, when a three-member delegation of the National Executives of the Association paid a courtesy call on the Speaker of Parliament.
On his part, the speaker, Alban Bagbin lauded their initiative indicating that it is the duty of Parliament to pass laws but intimated that the GBA can contribute to this endeavor by giving technical support to the Committees.
The GBA delegation was National President- Mr. Yaw Acheampong Boafo, National Vice-president- Mr. kwasi Amoako Adjei, and National Secretary-Mr. Kwaku Gyau Baffour.
Present at the meeting to receive the delegation were Mr. Speaker’s Adviser and a former Member of Parliament for Ho West-Hon. Kofi Atto, Hon. Bernard Ahaifor- Member of Parliament for Akatsi South -Ranking member for Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Hon. Nelson Kyeremeh-Member of Parliament for Brekum East –Vice Chairman to the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee in Parliament.
