Name Of Mahama's Veep - Journalists Disappointed

President John Dramani Mahama today dribbled the expectant journalists who trooped to Parliament to hear the announcement of the name of the Vice President.

All the major papers and radio stations had predicted that he was going to communicate to the Speaker, Mrs Joyce Adeline Bamford-Addo and gone ahead to suggest some possible people from which he was going to make his choice.

But, they were disappointed when the Speaker did not inform the House about the communication from the President as they had predicted when the House begun sitting at about 11 am.

After some papers had been laid, the Majority Leader, Mr Cletus Avoka announced that NDC MP for Shai Osudoku and NPP MP for Bantama, Mrs Cecilia Dapaah had been nominated to represent the House on the committee that had been formed to plan the funeral of the late former President John Evans Atta Mills.

The House thereafter suspended sitting to enable the MPs to visit the Private Residence of the late former President to commensurate with his widow, D Naadu Mills and take part in the one week observation of the death of the former President.

When the House resumed sitting at 1.45 pm, the resident choral group in Parliament, Voices of Democracy, treated the MPs and the audience to some soothing patriotic anthems.

The entire House, including the public and press galleries looked black with the MPs, staff of Parliament, the general public and press wearing black costumes with red strips tied around either their necks or arms.

The atmosphere in the House was solemn and calm as the MPs sat quietly throughout the event without the usual debates and arguments.

At exactly 2.15 pm, the exact time that the former President was pronounced dead last week Tuesday, the House observed a minute's silence in his honour after which the House was adjourned for the MPs to visit the Osu Castle to mourn with President Mahama.