Out of Ghana’s 106 Minority MPs, only five were present in parliament on
Friday, 22 February 2019 for business, Class91.3FM’s parliamentary
correspondent, Ekow Annan, reported.
It is unclear why so many of the MPs from the Minority Caucus were absent.
Ekow Annan said there are speculations that most of them have travelled
to their various constituencies to take part in the NDC’s presidential
primaries to be held on Saturday, 23 February.
He explained that usually, the leadership of both sides would ask permission on behalf of their members before being absent.
The house was expected to deliberate on a concern raised by the Majority
Women’s Caucus about the brandishing of placards on the floor with the
inscription “bloody widow” during the swearing-in ceremony of Ayawaso
West Wuogon MP, Lydia Alhassan.
On 6 February 2019, First Deputy Speaker, Joe Osei-Owusu ordered the
Clerk and Table Office to produce footages of proceedings of that day to
identify those MPs for appropriate sanctions to be meted out to them.
This was after the leadership of the Minority side failed to apologise
for the misconduct of its members.
In response to a parliamentary question on the floor of the house filed
by Ablekuma Central MP, Ebenezer Nii Narh Nartey for an update on the
matter, Deputy Majority Leader, Sarah Adwoa Safo told the house that the
Clerk and Table Office are unable to identify the MPs after reviewing
the visuals on the proceedings.
She added that the leadership is engaging the public affairs department
to get the visuals from other media houses to help deal with those MPs.
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