The immediate past chairman of the Roads and Transport Committee of Parliament, Kennedy Osei-Nyarko, has called out the Ministry of Roads and Highways for issuing a statement over the weekend suspending an Act of Parliament, the National Roads Authority 2024 Act 1118.
This Act seeks to manage Ghana's road infrastructure by merging the Ghana Highways Authority, the Department of Urban Roads, and Feeder Roads.
According to the MP, it is rather shocking that the sector minister, Governs Kwame Agbodza, who took former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government to task for abolishing road tolls without recourse to Parliament, is overseeing such an action.
He points out that Parliament, as the legislative body, is the right avenue to address any concerns arising from the implementation of the law, and not through an executive fiat. "Come to Parliament with an amendment for the portion they feel there is an issue with," he said. "I have picked up information that the National Labour Commission wrote to the Ministry to suspend the implementation. "Does an independent body have such powers?
