According to Kobina Tahir (KT) Hammond, once the Speaker is absent from Parliament or he is not presiding over the E-levy debate and subsequent voting, the Majority group would not get enough numbers to push the bill through. He indicated that, this will prevent further fisticuffs in the chamber since both sides of the House have 137 members each, and the only way to ensure there is order in the chamber is to reintroduce the E-levy Bill only when Speaker Bagbin is presiding. “If the speaker is not sitting and we have 137 and 137, how are we going to get the numbers? We (NPP) have our 138, Bagbin is sitting, there is no room for argument,” KT Hammond told Joy News on Thursday, January 27. The E-levy since its announcement by the Finance Minister has received public backlash from some Ghanaians especially Members of Parliament from the Minority Caucus.

Source: GhanaWeb January 28, 2022 20:41 UTC