{"id":2230,"date":"2020-03-31T18:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/nu\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2020-03-31T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:21:31","slug":"coronavirus-president-akufo-addo-seeks-parliamentary-support-to-restrict-movements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/coronavirus-president-akufo-addo-seeks-parliamentary-support-to-restrict-movements\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: President Akufo-Addo seeks Parliamentary support to restrict movements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>March 18, 2020 &#8211; Daily Graphic Online<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Ms Gloria Afua Akuffo, has laid the Imposition of Restrictions Bill, 2020 before Parliament in relation to the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19).<\/p>\n<p>The Bill is intended to provide a legislative framework in consonance with the Constitution for the imposition of restriction, as a quick and effective means of intervention to address emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>It was laid together with a copy of the Executive Approval letter dated March 18, 2020, to prove that the President had granted an Executive approval for the Bill to be laid before the House under a certificate of urgency.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the Bill is to provide for powers to impose restrictions on persons in the event of disaster, emergency or similar circumstance to ensure public safety and protection.<\/p>\n<p>After the laying of the Bill, the Second Deputy Speaker, Mr Alban Bagbin, referred the Bill to the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 18, 2020 &#8211; Daily Graphic Online The Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Ms Gloria Afua Akuffo, has laid the Imposition of Restrictions Bill, 2020 before Parliament in relation to the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The Bill is intended to provide a legislative framework in consonance with the Constitution for the imposition of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[246],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-codvid19"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendwestafrica.org\/ghana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}