The Ranking Member of Parliament's Economy and Development Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has urged the House to intensify its oversight role by demanding official documentation on several government-launched economic programmes.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on Friday, July 18, the Ofoase Ayirebi MP commended the Business Committee of the house for its detailed schedule of parliamentary business but called for a supplementary statement to include key policy documents that are yet to be submitted to Parliament.
He said these are papers that concern issues of national and economic interest, and that the programmes have been launched by the government, and "till date, we have not received a single A4 sheet detailing them.
That makes oversight difficult." Mr Oppong Nkrumah cited six major programmes that had been publicly launched in recent months but for which no official documentation had been laid before the House.
