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The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Hon Joseph Osei Owusu has instructed the clerks of Parliament to get him a video tape of proceedings of Parliament on Tuesday 5th February 2019 .

This is to help identify individual members of the Minority caucus of Parliament who carried placards with the inscription "Bloody Widow" in the chamber before Hon Lydia Seyram Alhassan was sworn in as MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon yesterday, in order to deal with those minority MPs.

The Speaker's demand for the video tapes followed the refusal by the minority leadership to comply with his ruling today that the Minority leadership should render apology on behalf of their members who carried the placards.

The demand for apology over the bloody widow placards was requested by the MP for Kpandai, Hon Matthew Nyindam when he stood in the chamber and drew the Speaker's attention over the inscription on the placards which according to Hon Nyindam was offensive to the dignity of Hon Lydia Seyram Alhassan. Hon Nyindam therefore urged the Speaker to rule on the issue.

The Deputy Minority Leader Hon James Avedzi said no rule of the House obliges the minority leadership to apologise for the actions of individual members of the minority caucus.

According to him placards had been carried into the chamber on various occasions and wondered why apology is being demanded over that carried by some minority members yesterday.

The Minority has refused to apologize to the new Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Lydia Alhasssan.

Madam Alhassan won last Thursday’s by-elections by a landslide but her colleagues on the other side are not in favour of the election process, and her election.

They accused government of sending thugs on them and innocent voters after Ningo-Prampram MP Samuel George was assaulted by so-called officers from National Security.

After boycotting the polls and demanding immediate justice for their colleague, the Minority on Tuesday stormed out of Parliament when the new MP was being sworn in.