MONROVIA, September 30(LINA) -The House of Representatives did not hold the 8th Day Sitting of its Extraordinary Session on Tuesday to sympathize with Montserrado County Representative Edward Forh over the death of his daughter.
Following devotion and roll call, the Presiding Officer and Deputy Speaker of the House, Hans Barchue, made a motion asking his colleagues to suspend the session to allow Speaker J. Alexander Tyler lead a delegation to sympathize with Representative Forh.
The Liberia News Agency reports that all of the 38 Representatives present seconded the Deputy Speaker’s motion, thereby resulting to the immediate suspension of normal Legislative activities at the Lower House for the day.
It can be recalled that Representative Forh’s 21-year- old daughter died at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Medical Center on Saturday, September 27, where he had carried her for treatment.
On the House’s Agenda included a report from the Committees on Health & Social Welfare and Judiciary on an “Act criminalizing concealing information of persons or group of persons with contiguous infectious disease(s) in Liberia”.
The Agenda also contained a report from the Joint Committees on Gender & Child Development, Health & Social Welfare and Judiciary on an “Act to amend Chapter 38 of the Executive Law establishing the Ministry of Gender & Development to establish the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection.”
The Agenda also contained the appearance of the Acting Minister of Commerce & Industry, Cyril Allen, Deputy Minister of Commerce & Trade and the Inspector General of the Ministry as well as the Director of Price Control Division.
The Legislators had invited the Commerce & Industry Ministry authorities to explain reasons responsible for the sharp increase in the price of the nation’s staple food, rice on the Liberian market, barely one week after the Ministry pronounced that there was a stockpile of the commodity in the country.
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