Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has sworn in two new Members of Parliament.
Prof. Alidu Seidu and Bernard Bediako were sworn in as MPs for Tamale Central and Akwatia respectively on Tuesday, October 21, 2025 as the House reconvened.
The Speaker administered the Oath of allegiance and Oath of a Member of Parliament to both MPs.
“I will hold you to the two new oaths that you have sworn. Particularly, the one where you clearly stated that you will faithfully and consciously discharge your duty as the Member of Parliament,” Bagbin stated after swearing in the two MPs.
To enable the MPs discharge their duties effectively, Alban Bagbin presented the two MPs with the Standing Orders of Parliament and the 1992 constitution.
He urged the two new MPs to study the Orders of Parliament and the constitution to help them effectively discharge their duties.
“To help you discharge those duties, I will first give you a hoe and a cutlass. You don’t go to your farm without the hoe or the cutlass. So, on daily basis, I observe Members when they walked in,” he said.
He noted that the Clerk of Parliament will present other documents to the two MPs later.
He added: “There’s a lot that you have to learn. Whether you are a professor, or you are a farmer or you are from anywhere, you have come to a new school and that school starts from creche and you are starting from creche today. Please don’t assume that because of your capacity in other areas you know it, you don’t know it and you have to start learning.”
Bernard Bediako Baidoo secured victory in the Akwatia by-election with 18,199 votes, following the demise of the late Ernest Yaw Kumi.
In Tamale Central, Professor Alidu Seidu was declared the winner of the by-election after emerging as the sole candidate, succeeding the late Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, who lost his life in a helicopter crash on August 6, 2025.
The two newly elected lawmakers, both representing the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have been duly sworn in.
