{"id":183406,"date":"2024-10-27T06:52:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T04:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-dont-abandon-legislative-duties-speaker-to-mps\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T06:52:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T04:52:26","slug":"ghana-dont-abandon-legislative-duties-speaker-to-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-dont-abandon-legislative-duties-speaker-to-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Don&#8217;t Abandon Legislative Duties &#8230;Speaker to MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has asked Members of Parliament (MPs) not to abandon their legislative duties during the electioneering, ahead of the 2024 General Election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">He said it was understandable that the demands of campaigning would compete for their time and energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Mr Bagbin, however, said it was also critical that MPs balanced these demands with legislative responsibilities, to ensure that full attention was given to crucial bills, debates and decisions that&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410170565.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has asked Members of Parliament (MPs) not to abandon their legislative duties during the electioneering, ahead of the 2024 General Election. He said it was understandable that the demands of campaigning would compete for their time and energy. Mr Bagbin, however, said it was also critical that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631192:a7a9acb39b78a3e24246190290eebd36:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[9192,258,256,7207,18559,4508,4509,7579,7260,257,254,9632],"class_list":["post-183406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-abandon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dont","tag-duties","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-legislative","tag-mps","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn05.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00631192:a7a9acb39b78a3e24246190290eebd36:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}