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The Minority in Parliament Monday walked out of the House in protest against the Constitutional Instrument (CI) creating 45 new Constituencies.
The Minority contended that before the House went on recess, the Electoral Commission laid CI 73 but when the legislators were recalled Monday, it was replaced with CI77. The minority is therefore demanding explanations for the development.
The opposition MPs insisted the original CI has been changed.
The Speaker of the House, Joyce Bamford-Addo however ruled against the Minority, insisting that the change in name does not matter. This led to the walk out by the Minority.
Minority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu told Joy FM's Parliamentary correspondent Samuel Darko after the walk out that the CI77 is fundamentally different from the CI73 which was laid before the House earlier.
He said it was strange that the Speaker ruled that the two documents were the same.
The CI needs 21 sitting days to mature into law to give legal backing to the creation of the 45 new constituencies. But the Minority Leader insisted that counting could not start under the circumstance.
He said the Majority Leader Cletus Avoka, if he so desires, should properly lay the CI77 before the House explaining that counting down to the 21 sitting days could only start from when it is laid.
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