Tag: #DropThatChamber
#Dropthatchamber: The day Ghanaian youth spoke truth to power
It’s been a year since the #Dropthatchamber campaign took off and got parliament to suspend its plan of building a new parliamentary chamber. To...
Drop that chamber and amend the constitution
Subsections 1, 3 and, 7 of article 47 of the Constitution of Ghana provide that:
(1) Ghana shall be divided into as many constituencies for...
Soldier jailed 90 days and stripped of rank for joining #DropThatChamber...
A Ghanaian soldier who took part in a social media campaign against a new parliamentary chamber Lance Corporal Lincoln Isaac Wassah is to spend...
#DropThatChamber march suspended
The march, dubbed:#DropThatChamber in opposition to Parliament’s decision to construct a new parliamentary enclave for $200 million has been called off, after the House...
Ghana’s Parliament drops $200m new chamber after public protest
Ghana's Parliament has succumbed to public pressure to drop a plan to construct a new $200m 450-seat chamber.
“Before projects are completed, feasibility studies are...
Ghana’s president Akufo-Addo endorses #DropThatChamber campaign
Ghana's president Nana Akufo-Addo is against the construction of a new 450-seat new parliamentary chamber in the capital Accra.
The chamber, which will cost $200...
#DropThatChamber: DYMOG petitions CHRAJ over procurement breaches
Pressure group, Dynamic Youth Movement of Ghana (DYMOG), is raising concerns of potential breach of the Public Procurement (amended) Act, 2016, Act 914 in...
Military officer in trouble over #DropThatChamber campaign
A military officer
has reportedly been locked up for speaking against the controversial new
parliamentary complex.
In a viral video,
the officer is heard appealing to President Akufo-Addo...
VIDEO: Police release #DropThatChamber protesters
Ghanaian police have released three persons who protested in Parliament on Friday against the new 450-seat chamber under consideration.
The trio believed to be members...
#DropThatChamber: Ghanaian MPs are inconsiderate – OccupyGhana
A pressure group, OccupyGhana, has questioned the basis for a new 450-seat Chamber of Parliament in Ghana considering the level of hardship in the...
