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The Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean A. Mensa, will appear before the Committee of the Whole on Thursday to respond to a question by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwami Dafeamekpor.
The question relates to whether any contract has been awarded by the commission for the printing and supply of ballot papers since the 2024 general election.
The MP would also ask the chairperson of the EC what exactly had prevented the commission from declaring the Ablekuma North parliamentary results since the December 7 elections.
The Majority Leader and NDC MP for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, announced this last Friday when he laid the business ending Friday, June 20, 2025
He said the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources will present all mining agreements to Parliament for the House to scrutinise and approve.
He said that if Ghanaians were to secure favourable agreements, the sector Minister, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, must bring various mining leases to the House.
Mr Ayariga stressed the need for the House to improve its efforts to hold the sector accountable and to hold those in the industry accountable.
“The only thing that we can do to contribute to this is to scrutinise the mining agreements and make sure that the agreements are favourable to the people of Ghana.
“But if the agreements do not come here and yet the mines are operating as they have done in the last eight years, I think that it is not the right thing to do,” he said.
His response followed a concern raised by the Minority Chief Whip, Frank Annoh-Dompreh, that a number of mining companies were currently operating without the House approving any mining license for them.
He, for instance, cited the Gold Fields Damang Mines lease agreement and a number of others.
“We know the Executive has extended the lease and before even Parliament ratified the agreement and the House is well informed that the company is already working and this is wrong and it is against the Constitution,” he said.
The MP for Nsawam/Adoagyiri, therefore, suggested that the Leader of the House ensure that those mining agreements were ferried to the House for the needful to be done.
“They must find their way to this House so that we can do the needful,” he said.
Responding, the Majority Leader said he had been in the House for the past eight years and very few mining agreements had come to the House in spite of mining being carried out across the country.
He, therefore, urged the sector minister to take his call as a serious matter and bring the various agreements “for us to work on”.
Aside from the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, other ministers scheduled to appear before the House are the Minister of Works, Housing and Water Resources, Kenneth Gilbert Adjei, the Minister of Energy and Green Transition, John Abdulai Jinapor, the Minister of Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Ibrahim Murtala Muhammad, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and the Minister of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare.
For instance, he said, Mr Adjei would appear before Parliament on Wednesday, June 18, to brief the House on the recent flooding incidents across the country and measures being implemented to mitigate the impact, as well as avert future occurrences.
He said pursuant to Order 97, Ministers of State may also lay papers, as well as reports from committees and government policy statements to the House for consideration.
