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Minority asks for time to study
Government/Vodafone GT agreement
Accra, Aug. 13, Ghanadot/GNA-Parliament
on the second day of its special sitting on Wednesday
adjourned again to the next day, the debate on the motion
and ratification of the proposed $900 million sale and
purchase agreement of the Ghana Telecommunication Company
between the Ghana Government and the Vodafone International
Holdings BV.
Sitting began rather late after 1300 hours, instead of the
normal 1000 hours.
After 1410 hours when the debate on the motion on the
telecom deal was about to begin, Mr Doe Adjaho, Deputy
Leader of Minority, prayed the Speaker for adjournment.
He explained that the sale and purchase agreement was a
matter of public concern and the House had to adjourn to
allow Members enough time to study the original sale and
purchase agreement and the Report of the Joint Parliamentary
Committee on Finance and Communication on the deal between
Government of Ghana and Vodafone, which had just been laid
before the House.
Mr. Mahama Ayariga, NDC-Bawku Central, at the beginning of
the sitting, when the paper on the deal was laid before the
House, said only the 25 members the Committee, out of the
230 Member Legislature had got copies of the agreement on
the proposed transaction.
He said it would be “procedurally irregular” for the paper
to be laid without the agreement, and called for the
rejection of the Report, to which the Speaker Mr Ebenezer
Hughes responded “this is not the time to talk about
rejecting the report.”
The Speaker explained later that the House had not yet come
to the debate on the motion yet for the Report to be
rejected.
Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Mr
Abraham Ossei Aidooh, said he had just picked a copy of the
agreement himself.
The Report of the Joint Committee on Finance and Mines and
Energy on the Credit Facility Agreement between the
Government of Ghana and Caylon Credit Agricole Bank of
France for an amount of 85 million euros for the Network
Expansion and Loss Reduction Project of the Electricity
Company of Ghana, as well as other reports for agreements on
energy and road infrastructure were laid.
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