The Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has warned lawmakers against using unparliamentary language in the House.
His warning
follows a directive to the Business Committee of Parliament to summon Finance
Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to brief the lawmakers on the ongoing picketing at the
Finance Ministry by pensioner bondholders for an exemption from the domestic
debt exchange programme.
Bagbin warned
the MPs not to speak as though they were in a chop bar or marketplace.
He said:
"Use Parliamentary language, not the language in a chop bar or marketplace
but in Parliament."
Ofori-Atta
addressing Parliament confirmed that all pensioners who failed to tender their
old bonds for new ones under the programme have been exempted.
He stressed that
the pensioners have nothing to worry about adding that all their coupons and
principals will be honoured when maturity is due.
Ken Ofori-Atta
has, however, advised the pension bondholders to stop their continuous
picketing at the ministry.
He said the
picketing over the controversial domestic debt exchange programme is
unnecessary because the exercise was voluntary.
He maintained
that the voluntary exercise has concluded and that the government will honour
its obligations to bondholders, including retirees who voluntarily opted not to
participate in the programme.
Addressing
pensioners on Wednesday, February 15, 2023, Ofori-Atta stated that the
picketing is now unnecessary.
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