Member of Parliament for Bodi Constituency in the Western Region, Hon. Sampson Ahi says the behaviour of the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Prof. Mike Aaron Oquaye shows he wants to make Parliament an extension of his party [NPP] headquarters.
According to him, the Speaker of Parliament is being partisan and bias in his approach to the Minority side of the House, as he is deliberately denying the Minority leader of carrying out his responsibility.
Speaking in an interview on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Hon. Sampson Ahi inquired from the Majority Leader Hon. Osei-Kyei Mensah-Bonsu to mention for once when he was ever denied as Minority leader by Rt. Hon Doe Adjaho to ask only one question after Hon. Dominic Nitiwul [then Deputy Minority leader] had asked his question.
“What is dangerous is that the Speaker of Parliament wants to make Parliament an extension of NPP Headquarters, but we won’t allow him to do that. He is so partisan and bias in his dealing with us [Minority in Parliament]. Why will the Speaker deny the Minority leader the opportunity to ask many questions except one? It has never happened and it never happens,” he fumed.
He urged the Majority leader to speak with honesty and then condemn the actions of the Speaker of Parliament; revealing that when the issue with the Agric Minister happened, Hon. Osei-Kyei Mensah -Bonsu promised to prevail upon the Speaker to treat the Minority leader fairly.
“If the Speaker treated the Minority leader fairly, why will he prevail on the Speaker? When you come to Parliament to do partisan politics you will be embarrassed. When they brought the Special Prosecutor bill to Parliament, per our standing orders every bill must be gazetted and lasted for 14 days before it will be introduced to Parliament, but this particular bill was not gazetted and when the Minority leader prompted him about the illegality involved the Speaker refused to take the good advice. When we threatened to go to the Supreme Court, they quickly withdrew the bill; what a disgrace!” he said.
He was of the firm believe that the current Speaker of Parliament has made his mind to disrespect everyone from the Minority side of the House, explaining why he did not allow the Minority leader to continue with his submission on the floor of the House after Hon. K.T Hammond called in for Point of Order.
“If he [Speaker of Parliament] shows respect to us, we will reciprocate the same gesture. He is a lawyer and a Reverend Minister and so we thought he was going to help strengthen our democracy in Parliament but rather he is taking us back on that path. We won’t allow him to infringe on our right and freedom in Parliament.”
"We can assure him that he didn't bring us into Parliament and he is not the one who drafted the laws in Parliament; is the law his property? Past Speakers of Parliament did not behave the way he is behaves in the House," he slammed.
Parliament has dismissed claims by the Minority that the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, is biased against them when conducting business of the House.
Last Thursday, the Minority voiced their frustration and disenchantment that the Speaker exhibited naked bias against them when the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Dr Owusu Afriyie Akoto, appeared on the floor of Parliament to answer questions on the Planting for Food and Jobs programme of the government.
But a statement signed by the acting Director of Public Affairs, Parliament House, Ms Kate Addo, said the accusations against the Speaker were untrue
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So this guy is a Parliamentarian...wow
NDCs in parliament are not intelligent at all. You call yourself opposition? tweaaaa!!!!
This is ALL what ALL NDC commentators are saying. SAD!
So this who party called ndc has no single mature person. From Chairman, communicators, secretary, aspirants almost every body is the same.
MP FOR 'DIS-ENFRAN-CHISE-CHISE-MENT', THE DOLLAR IS APPRECIATING THE CEDI, BASALUNA. ONLY IN ndc WILL THIS MAN BECOME A MINISTER COURTESY JOHN MAHAMA.
Aside the insults, which will not really solve the present problems, I personally was trying so hard to unearth and find out what exactly the Minority in Parliament are accusing the Speaker of Parliament of; one is that he did not allow the Minority leader to ask a second question or so, then what? This attitude of NDC gives me the impression that we still do not have strong opposition in Parliament. And for somebody like Haruna, I taught he could have fight this battle better than all the noise and the confusion and the unfounded accusations. I am tempted to believe that NDC is gradually loosing the right caliber of persons to be in Parliament. Knowledge is power without necessarily using force and brawl. Let us see that from the NDC Parliamentarians. The battle of minds and brains and stop the accusations and the hullabaloo.
Hon Sampson, sometimes be serious a bit. Where were you when Gen Mosquito used to sit in cabinet meetings with ministers? It is the same misguided statements from you that your own NDC party MP slapped you in parliament. Our elders say that when a ***barred word*** shuts his or her mouth, he or she is counted among the wise.
As for the Member of Parliament for Bodi Constituency in the Western Region, Hon. Sampson Ahi, an APE is even more handsome than him. WHAT A FACE. Really looks like an IDOT. I wonder how with a face like this, he is able to talk in Public.
See his twisted mouth and face. This thing is also in parliament, with his extremely bad English. The likes of Ahi and Akandoh are certainly in the wrong place.....courtesy NDC 1diotic arrangements.
Even DISENFRANCHISE you can't pronounce and you sit there spewing gabbage. Good riddance!