The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has adjourned the current meeting of Parliament to January 2, 2025.

This adjournment, which the Speaker announced during the sitting on Friday, December 20, 2024, comes four days after the House reconvened following its indefinite adjournment in October 2024.

This makes it the third time the current meeting of the House has been adjourned in the last few months.

Ahead of Friday’s sitting, the Minister of Finance, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, was expected to present a mini-budget for the 2025 Fiscal Year, which would cover three months: January, February, and March 2025.

This was after President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a formal communication to the House, submitted budget estimates for the first quarter of 2025 for the Judiciary and Judicial Service, Audit Service, and Parliament and Parliamentary Service.

The submission of estimates is in accordance with the 1992 Constitution and is due to the fact that the budget for 2025 has not been passed by Parliament, which was supposed to be done before the end of November 2024.

The Minority Caucus of the House slammed the finance minister for delaying in presenting the mini-budget.

According to them, failure to present the budget would have serious consequences, including workers not receiving their salaries in 2025.

The House is also expected to consider bills, including those for the approval of loans and tax exemptions, before it.

The Minority Leader, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, even threatened that Dr. Amin Adam might face some jail time if he fails to present the mini-budget.

The Speaker of Parliament, during Friday’s sitting, took the House through the records of its previous sittings before proceeding to adjourn the meeting.

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