{"id":246218,"date":"2026-10-02T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-speaker-rejects-motion-for-probe-into-narcotics-cases-%c2%b7-minority-describes-ruling-as-parliamentary-oversight\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T20:30:11","slug":"ghana-speaker-rejects-motion-for-probe-into-narcotics-cases-%c2%b7-minority-describes-ruling-as-parliamentary-oversight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-speaker-rejects-motion-for-probe-into-narcotics-cases-%c2%b7-minority-describes-ruling-as-parliamentary-oversight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Speaker Rejects Motion for Probe Into Narcotics Cases \u00b7 Minority Describes Ruling As Parliamentary Oversight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The Speaker of Parliament, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has dismissed a private members&#8217; motion seeking a parliamentary inquiry into recent narcotics-related cases recorded in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The motion, sponsored by the First Deputy Minority Whip and Member of Parliament for Tolon, Mr Habib Iddrisu, sought the establishment of a committee to conduct a transparent and bipartisan investigation into the cases and report its findings to Parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The motion was submitted to the Clerk to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610020013.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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, Mr Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has dismissed a private members&#8217; motion seeking a parliamentary inquiry into recent narcotics-related cases recorded in the country. The motion, sponsored by the First Deputy Minority Whip and Member of Parliament for Tolon, Mr Habib Iddrisu, sought the establishment of a committee to conduct a transparent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":246219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,10498,15609,4508,4509,12287,18245,22479,257,15265,5855,5805,8440,7870,254,9632],"class_list":["post-246218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cases","tag-describes","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-minority","tag-motion","tag-narcotics","tag-news","tag-oversight","tag-parliamentary","tag-probe","tag-rejects","tag-ruling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246218","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=246218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}