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January 7, 2025
Former Member of Parliament for Wenchi West, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has said in the 9th Parliament of the fourth Republic of Ghana, the National Democratic Congress’ (NDC) Majority has accepted that the views of the Minority matters.
According to him being in the Minority does not mean you do not love your nation and was happy with the process leading to the election of leadership of the House.
In an interview just after the inauguration of the 9th Parliament, and the selection of the Speakers, he noted that in the immediate past 8th Parliament, the importance of the Minority was not recognized; the NPP were thinking that if you are in the Minority nothing of yours counted.
So, in the decision process your ideas were discarded and were not taken serious. They only see something good when it was coming from them. For instance E-Levy brought about a lot of brouhaha; they themselves came out to say it’s not good, and promised to scrap it off when voted into power.
“When the E-levy was being passed, they knew what the then Minority NDC was saying was right, but because it was coming from the Minority, they did not want to work with it. We are not like that so if you look at the election that took place, when they were in the Majority, they did not want the second deputy speaker to come from us the NDC, they gave it to an independent candidate. We could have given the second deputy speaker to anyone of the independent MPs, but we did not do that looking at the fact that they are new.
And, if we do not give it to the NPP, we will not be helping the nation. That is why we gave it to Asiamah, the Fomena MP; he has worked in the House and we believe in his ability. The fact that he is not with us does not mean if we have his contribution we cannot use that to build this Nation, he added.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com