The 2022 Financial Statement and Budget has been approved by parliament.
This follows the annulment of an earlier motion, which saw the Minority reject the budget statement, last Friday.
Sitting in as Speaker, the first deputy Speaker of Parliament, who doubles as the Member of Parliament for the Bekwai constituency, Mr. Joseph Osei Owusu declared Friday’s rejection as null and void, without any legal effect.
This was after the Majority Leader of Parliament, Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, had applied for 2022 budget rejection to be annulled, citing constitutional and standing order breaches.
He ruled that the 137 Minority members that rejected the 2022 budget did not meet the constitutional and standing orders that requirements that demands more than half of Member of Parliament to be present before a motion can accepted or otherwise.
In an interesting twist, the Sit-in Speaker during the head counts of Members of Parliaments present, counted himself as Member representing the Bekwai constituency.
This brought to 138, the number needed to meet the constitutional requirements for a motion to be accepted or otherwise.
In what appears to be a replica of the events leading to the rejection of the 2022 budget statements, the Minority in Parliament had boycotted sitting.
