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Chairman of the Subsidiary Legislative Committee (SLC), Hon Osei Kwame Prempeh says he is hugely disappointed with the decision by the Majority caucus to reject the committee�s report on Constitutional Instrument (CI) 78. Osei Kwame Prempeh believes the Majority Caucus only cared about their partisan interest instead of the general good of the whole nation, describing their decision as shameful. On Monday, Parliament, by a Majority vote of 81 to 56, rejected the recommendation of the Committee for the annulment of the proposed CI 78, which is to give legal backing to the creation of some 45 new constituencies because it was fraught with mistakes. The legislature is made up of 228 members. The report, which was laid before the House last Friday indicated that 26 electoral areas created under LI 1983 had been omitted whiles 22 non-existing electoral areas have been introduced. The Majority�s decision means, the Representation of the People (Parliamentary Constituencies) Instrument 2012 (C.I 78) would mature latest by Wednesday. Speaking on Okay FM�s Ade Akye Abia Morning show on Tuesday October 2, 2012, the Nsuta-Kwamang-Beposo MP, who was also a former Deputy Attorney General during the erstwhile Kufuor administration said as he was reading the report which was drafted not only by the Minority but by both sides, �they were only making noise and for the first time in my life and my long years of serving in parliament, I felt sad�.