Deputy Majority leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has disclosed he lost all his friends in the minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) during deliberation of the Electronic Transaction Levy (E-levy.)
“One evening one told me that ‘leader nowadays there is a spy so we cannot come to you in the evening for us to chat.”
“But when the E-levy was over, they started trooping in and we restored friendship,” he said.
The Deputy Majority leader was speaking at the commemoration of the International Day of Parliamentarism organized by the Parliamentary Training Institutes on Tuesday, July 26, 2022.
Mr. Afenyo-Markin disclosed all his friends in the Minority group refused to pick up his calls because they were being monitored.
This, he said, was a sad moment for democracy.
He stated that the democracy of Ghana has gotten to a point where the political leadership needs to congregate around issues and do less of partisanship and mischief politics because it creates the unfortunate impression to followers that Members of Parliament box in the Chamber and are therefore enemies.
“They carry on the suspicion, which is unfortunate but we are friends,” he said.