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July 28, 2024
Minority chief whip, Governs Kwame Agbodza has lamented over a practice where the Members of Parliament on the Majority side of the House do not attend to the House in their numbers, but the Minority do and are the ones in their numbers to do government business on the floor.
On Friday, July 26, 2024, as at 10:04pm, twenty-seven (27) lawmakers from the Minority side were on the floor of the House working whiles only thirteen (13) from the Majority side of the House.
Mr. Governs Agbodza indicated to Leader of Government Business, Alexander Afenyo-Markin that the House cannot work beyond Tuesday, July 31, 2024 otherwise his side has to get all the one hundred and thirty- eight (138) members to come and take decision on every business on the floor of the House.
“I mean look at what we are doing to ourselves, count the people behind you Majority Leader; you are using us to do your business; that is not fair. You told the people of this country you are majority yet you would not even bring your people to do your own business. Why are you doing this to us? It is as if someone told you when you started this meeting you should not bring the bills”.
He said the Minority was not happy about this and added that the reason why they are still doing business as late at 10:00pm was because Tuesday, July 31,2024 they would not go beyond mid-day and rise for recess and nothing can stop that.
“Whatever you will do let them confirm it; all those lobbying around that someone would return from a trip that we can stay up to Friday we are not staying up to Friday, we are rising on Tuesday, get it right in your mind and stop threatening. You would recall us after seven days, recall and you would see the faces that would come back”, he affirmed.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com