News:
October 13, 2017
Member of Parliament(MP) for the Ashiaman Constituency, Ernest Henry Norgbey has revealed that the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye is now giving the Minority its due respect and recognition, since the start of the third meeting of the first session of the seventh Parliament of the fourth Republic.
Mr. Norgbey who was speaking in an interview with Ghanamps.com further pointed out that, their protest against the Speaker’s conduct of not recognizing leadership of the Minority, in the second meeting has send clear message and gone down well with the Speaker.
The Minority must always have their “say” whiles the Majority must have its “way”, if that is ignored by any Speaker, you do that at your own peril, he said.
According to the Ashiaman legislator sometimes one needs to put some military force to get what they want, the Speaker was not trying to see “eye to eye with us in the previous siting”.
“And we did the thinkable thing to let the Speaker see, “eye to eye with us”, we had to put it to him that we were unhappy with his conduct in the chair”.
Mr. Norgbey said he has observed that the Speaker, has changed in the way he conducts himself on the floor of the House, and gives attention to the leadership of the Minority.
Again when the Speaker does not hear from the leadership of the Minority say, thank you Mr. Speaker, he will enquire are you done?
He further revealed that whiles in the Minority, during late Speaker Ala Adjetey’s time they fell in love with his conduct and pushed that he should be maintained all because of the way he conducted business in the House, despite the fact that he did not belong to their party.
“We expect Speaker Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, does same he should allow the Minority to have their say”.
It is only a “fool”, who does not change his or her mind set, beginning of everything has its own challenges, moving along the line you will try to correct yourself.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com