Some members of the Minority side of Parliament have planned to abort a possible passage of the Petroleum Revenue Management Bill as it goes to the house for a third reading on Wednesday March 2. The MPs are expected to file a suit at the Supreme Court to hamper the passage. The suit is being spearheaded by four MPs, made up of Dominic Nitiwul, (Bimbila), Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, (Manhyia), Gifty Eugenia Kusi, (Tarkwa-Nsuaem) and Kwabena Otchere Darko-Mensah (Takoradi). The MPs took the decision on Wednesday February 24, after the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, threw out an amendment that would have committed 10 percent of oil revenue from the Jubilee Oil Fields to developing the Western Region. Mr. Adjaho had in his ruling on the matter, said the proposed legislations were unconstitutional and will offend the rules of the House if allowed to stand. But the MP for Takoradi Otchere Darko-Mensah says the Speaker erred in his judgment hence their decision to seek an interpretation of Article 108 of the 1992 Constitution at the Supreme Court. One of the MPs seeking to arrest Wednesday’s proceedings, Dominic Nitiwul has told Citi News even if the House succeeds in pushing the Bill through, lawful means would be used to nullify the new law. “The first relief the lawyers are going to seek is that, if the law is passed without our input, we will seek to say that it is illegal, null and void and for that matter the Speaker was wrong. And the Courts have the power to tell Parliament that it erred and so the Bill could be brought back. “The second thing will be to determine whether what the Speaker did was Constitutional or not. Whether indeed the Speaker can say that because the amendment was not introduced by the President or Ministers of State it could not stand.” Meanwhile the Chairman of the Finance Committee, James Klutsey Avedzi, told Citi News’ Parliamentary Correspondent Richard Sky that all is set for Parliament to give its final blessing to the new piece of legislation which will govern the use of the nation’s oil revenue. “Last week we were able to go through over 300 amendments which show that Parliament has done a tedious work on the Bill by turning the whole Bill into what is coming out as the law to manage the petroleum revenue. So if everything goes on as planned, it will end the work on this Bill in Parliament and it will be left with the President to assent to the Act to become a law” he said. Source: Citifmonline.com