The Clerk to Parliament, Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, has revived calls for a new chamber and improved facilities for lawmakers to enhance legislative work.
He says Parliament needs a new chamber with complementary facilities, adequate workspaces and meeting rooms to accommodate Members of Parliament and staff of the Parliamentary Service.
According to him, existing facilities are inadequate for MPs to effectively discharge their constitutional duties, with the lack of meeting spaces forcing some caucuses to seek venues outside the chamber.
Speaking at a workshop for the Parliamentary Press Corps in Accra on Thursday, October 15, 2026, Djietror said current caucus meeting rooms can accommodate only about 30 to 35 people, making it difficult for larger groups to meet.
“We do not have a chamber with complementary facilities that will enable us to discharge our duties properly. We should be able to have enough workspace, meeting areas, division rooms, ministers’ lobbies, caucus lobbies so that when there are issues, a caucus will not necessarily have to file out and travel all the way to Job 600,” he said.
“Look at the Majority Caucus and where in Job 600 will you have space for them to meet and yet you are to meet as a caucus, as it is part of the rules of engagement,” Djiertror added.
The two-day workshop, sponsored by Parliament, was aimed at building the capacity of members of the press corps in parliamentary reporting.
Mr Djietror noted that infrastructure constraints are particularly pressing as Parliament prepares for budget considerations, when committees invite ministries, departments and agencies to brief them on programmes and expenditure, often with large delegations that further strain limited space.
The call for a new parliamentary chamber has been debated for years, with many Ghanaians taking to social media to criticise the legislature when it first proposed the project.
The pushback birthed the hashtag #DropThatChamber, with citizens questioning the lawmakers’ priorities at a time when the country was grappling with infrastructure deficits.
