Ghanaians who do not yet possess the Ghana Card would be excluded from these two significant national activities as a result of this development.
The interior minister, Mr. Ambrose Dery, is anticipated to address the legislature on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, discussing the challenges the NIA is encountering with printing and dispersing the ECOWAS Identity Card, often known as the “Ghana Card.” After completing the registration process, many Ghanaians were unable to link their bank accounts and SIM cards since they were unable to have their cards manufactured for them.
Additionally, it means that Ghanaians will not be able to use their SIM cards after the deadline has passed if they have not linked their SIM cards to their Ghana Cards and do not have their Ghana Cards or are unable to link their bank accounts. Barring any unexpected events, Albert Kan-Dapaah, Minister of National Security, is also slated to brief the House on Thursday, July 7, 2022, during a close sitting. It will focus on issues relating to national security, especially in light of the current wave of terrorist acts in the West African subregion.
On Tuesday, July 5, 2022, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto,Minister of food and agriculture, is also slated to brief the House on the government’s compensation program for poultry producers affected by the outbreak of highly pathogenic influenza in 2021. Five additional Ministers of State are anticipated to appear before the House this week in addition to these three who are slated to inform Parliament on these crucial national issues.
They are Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, Minister of Energy; John Peter Amewu, Minister of Railway Development; Dr. Kwaku Afriyie, Minister of Environment, Science Technology and Innovation; Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, Minister of Information; and Mavis Hawa Koomson, Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture Development. They must react to 31 questions, 12 of which are answered in the name of the Minister of Energy, Dr. Prempeh, who is also the MP for Manhyia South, and nine of which are answered in the name of the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Dery.
The majority of the House members’ inquiries to the Energy Minister concern the provision of power to populations without access to it and are constituency-specific (the rural electrification project).
The MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, will be the only one to ask the Energy Minister a question that is not particular to his or her electoral district.
Mr. Ablakwa is requesting from the Minister of Energy a comprehensive list of those who benefited from the interventions and activities of the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) Foundation, together with a breakdown of the costs associated with each one from 2017 to 2020. Muhammed Bawah Braimah, the MP for Ejura-Sekyedumase, and Francis-Xavier Kojo Sosu, the MP for Madina, are posing some of the nine questions to the Minister of the Interior.
Mr. Braimah is asking the Minister of the Interior when the state will provide compensation to those harmed in the Ejura shooting event, including the families of the two fatalities, and when MP bodyguards assigned to them will be adequately outfitted to carry out their duties. To guarantee inmates’ rights to appropriate food and nutrition by Sustainable Development Goal 2, which calls for Zero Hunger, Mr. Sosu wants to know what steps are being done to increase the meal allocation of GH1.80 per day.
