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February 14, 2025
The third Deputy Speaker of the Community Parliament and Minority Leader in Ghana’s 9th Parliament Alexander Kwamena-Afenyo Markin has lauded his former colleague at the Community Parliament and Majority Leader Mahama Ayariga for his special skills in conflict resolution.
The former first rapporteur on the Committee of Political Affairs, Peace, Security and African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), and the current Majority Leader in Ghana’s Parliament, Mahama Ayariga promised to investigate the raiding of the private residence of the former Finance Minister when a statement was made on the floor of the House to condemn the act.
The Leader of Government Business promised the House to cross check and get back to the House, on Thursday, February 13, 2025 and true to his words came back and apologized for the unlawful entry into the private residence of the former Finance Minister.
“On behalf of the President John Mahama who believes in upholding the rights and liberty of individual Ghanaians, I believe the act was unfortunate”, he state.
The Minority Leader, Afenyo-Markin in response assured the Majority Leader that their side will engage them constructively to do politics in a very descent way. “Let us respect each other and use words that are complementary to each other. I am an NPP, proudly so; you are NDC, proudly so; we should not use this platform to denigrate each other, sometimes the way we go after our leaders, the little said about it the better”.
He cautioned his colleagues to be mindful of the kind of politics they do, stating that if one checks the 2024 election results, “the percentage turn out in the Central Region, we did not go beyond 60, same in the Volta region; around the same percentage in Ashanti, Upper East and Western, then almighty Greater Accra where all the mighty politics is done find out the percentage turn out”.
He said what this means is that “a percentage of our population is getting fed up with us with the political class, because of our conduct”, he stressed.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com