By Iddi Yire/Elsie Appiah-Osei
Accra, Jan 07, GNA – Mr Bernard Ahiafor, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Akatsi South, has been elected First Deputy Speaker of the Ninth Parliament of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.
The House also elected Mr Andrew Asiamah Amoako, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Fomena, as Second Deputy Speaker.
Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, who was earlier elected as the Speaker of the Ninth Parliament and sworn into office by Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo, supervised the election of the two deputy speakers.
Mr Ahiafor, an astute lawyer, has served as a Member of the Seventh and Eighth Parliaments of the Fourth Republic.
He was the Ranking Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee in the Eighth Parliament.
Mr Asiamah Amoako, also a renowned lawyer, has been serving as the MP for Fomena since 7th January 2017 to date.
He served in the seventh Parliament as the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Fomena, and in the Eighth Parliament as an independent MP for the same constituency.
In the Eighth Parliament, he was the Second Deputy Speaker.
The Leadership of the House is made of NDC Majority Caucus Leadership and the NPP Minority Caucus Leadership.
The NDC side consist of Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, Majority Leader and Leader of Government Business in Parliament, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, Deputy Majority Leader, Mr Kwami Governs Agbodza, Majority Chief Whip, Mr Ahmed Ibrahim, First Deputy Majority Whip and Madam Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe Gansah, Second Deputy Majority Whip.
The leadership of the NPP front bench in Ninth Parliament consist of Mr Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, Minority Leader, Mrs Patricia Appiagyei, Deputy Minority Leader, Mr Frank Annor-Dompre, Minority Whip, Mr Habib Iddrisu, First Deputy Minority Whip and Mr Jerry Ahmed Shaib.
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