The Rt. Hon. Speaker, A.S.K. Bagbin has interacted and engaged with pressmen in the Northern Region with a call on them to be professional in executing their mandate as the fourth organ of the State.
He added that the media has played a pivotal role in the promotion and sustenance of Ghana’s democracy especially under the 4th Republic.
On his part, the President of the Northern Regional Chapter of the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA)Mr. Yakubu Abdul Majeed in his welcome remarks expressed gratitude to the Rt. Hon. Speaker for organizing such an event. To him, it is the first of its kind to have been organized in the region, by a sitting Speaker of Parliament, and wish it becomes an annual event.
The Rt. Hon. Speaker responded to questions ranging from how Members of Parliament catch his eyes on the floor of Parliament, regulating artificial intelligence, the work of the Public Account Committee, when the people of “SALL” would vote, when the LQBT law would be passed and whether Parliament is a rubber stamp to the executive among others.
The Rt. Hon. Speaker took the Pressmen through the three key programmes to be held in the Northern Zone as part of activities slated to celebrate 30 years of interrupted parliamentary democracy under the Fourth Republic. The events will commence with a Mock Parliament which will take place in Wa in the Upper West Region on Thursday 15th June 2023.
This would be followed by a public forum in the Northern Region at the University of Development Studies (UDS) campus on Friday the 16th of June 2023. To climax the zonal events will be a peace walk and sporting activities to take place in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region on Saturday the 17th of June 2023.
The Rt. Hon. Speaker will call on key traditional rulers in the zone during the period of celebrations. Parliament encourages all Ghanaians to actively participate in the 30th anniversary.
