Kpandai case sets the precedent – Habib Iddrisu challenges Speaker’s rejection of drug probe

The Deputy Minority Chief Whip, Habib Iddrisu, has challenged Speaker Alban Bagbin’s decision to reject a Minority motion seeking a parliamentary inquiry into major narcotics seizures linked to Ghana.“But when you read the standing orders that the Speaker quoted to rely on or heavily rely on with regard to this matter, he said, ‘Standing Order 101(3)F, which says that a motion shall relate to defined issues and not, and then the F be the subject matter of an action in which a judicial decision is pending, in such a way as may, in the opinion of the Speaker, prejudice the interests of parties to the action.’Speaker Alban Bagbin rejected the Minority’s motion during an extraordinary sitting, citing the overlap between the proposed parliamentary inquiry and ongoing investigations and judicial proceedings.