Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has apologised to Members of Parliament for the errors that were made on the votes and proceedings of Parliament for Tuesday’s sitting when the e-levy was approved by the House.
Mr Bagbin admitted that errors did occur and took ultimate responsibility for the mistakes.
He said on the floor on Thursday, March 31 that the clerk is only a civil servant and asked that claims that the clerk is partisan be deleted from the records.
“If you look at the attendance book definitely, there are errors, I will take responsibility and apologise to members for these errors,” he said.
Mr Bagbin further indicated that there is no perfect votes and proceedings, an official report capturing Parliamentary debate, anywhere in the world.
Errors, he said, are anticipated to occur, hence provisions have been made available to correct those mistakes.
He said this after the Minority had said errors were made on the votes of proceedings for Tuesday’s sitting when the e-levy was approved by the House.
The Speaker commended the Minority lawmakers for bringing this up for the necessary corrections to be made.
“There not votes and proceedings anywhere that are perfect,” Mr Bagbin said, adding that “…the draft is brought to the house giving opportunity to members to right the wrongs that they have been captured on the votes and proceedings.
“So rightly you have come and corrected, what you have done is right, we will go through properly and correct the errors,” he said.
