Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has ‘cursed’ the Minority in Parliament for its antics in the Chamber since the Supreme Court ruling on quorum and the rights of Deputy Speakers to vote while presiding.
Posterity, he said, will judge the Minority MPs for shooting down loan agreements in the Chamber using the judgement as an excuse.
Addressing the Hosue on Friday 18th March 2022 when, for the third day in a row, the Minority arrested a question on a loan agreement facility said, “Mr. Speaker when we sit here, we communicate among ourselves and we do not engage in surprises.
“The posture has always been to watch the arrowhead. But whatever is happening on the floor I will want Members to know that posterity is registering the same “That notwithstanding Mr. Speaker I shall engage further with the available leader on whatever was earlier agreed upon. So that, others will watch the arrowhead so can make progress.”
“I don’t understand why the Minority will tie the hand of the Majority, Mr. Speaker they should be more interested in the work of business by the government than us. Mr. Speaker looks at their numbers on a daily bases we are talking about the issue of attendance,” he added.
Deputy Ranking Member for Constitutional, Legal, and Parliamentary Affairs, Bernard Ahiafor, just as he did Thursday shot down approval of a 20 million Euros Loan Facility agreement between the government of Ghana and Germany over lack of quorum for decision making.
The facility which is to finance Green Credit Line under the Reform and Investment Partnership between the two countries is expected to help cut down carbon emissions.
Mr. Ahiafor argued per the Supreme Court judgment parliament is no longer master of its own rules.
First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, however, interjected and refuted such assertion and insisted the Supreme Court judgment allowing him and other deputies to be part of quorum and vote while presiding does not mean the House is no longer master of its own rules.
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