The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Minority in Parliament, which in recent time has been under severe fire over its poor performance, is now adopting mischief and inferior tactics of doing things to redeem its battered image.
The Minority has now resorted to raising red flags over simple and minor issues that will not in any way affect the forward move of the country. The agenda gets deeper and dirtier when it comes to the issue about the national economy, as the party continues to paint a bad picture of it.
It has now become clear that when the government as duty bound wants to put out the true picture of the economy, the NPP must do all it can to scuttle such noble idea.
Last Thursday, at Parliament, the NPP minority proved to Ghanaians that they would continue to heckle the government anytime it wants to tell Ghanaians the truth about the economy.
A simple mission by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Mr. Seth Terkper, to present a statement on the effects of the fall in crude oil prices on the economy made the Minority to go gaga in Parliament last Thursday.
Their fear was that the wrong position that they had earlier taken on the budget for 2015 would be exposed with the statement the minister was going to make.
In fact, the NPP Minority decided not to be part of proceedings when the minister entered the house.
They insisted that what Mr. Terpker brought to the house should have come as a motion and not as a statement.
For three hours sitting was suspended for leadership to work on the issues.
Interestingly, The Enquirer gathered from a flawless source within the Minority that some of its members were compromised before the minister was allowed to present his statement.
As to what was used to compromise those MP’s, the source would not mention it.
The sources within the Minority told The Enquirer that it was their avowed aim not to make their position on the economy gain grounds and they would continue on that crusade with the slightest opportunity.
The Minority in parliament in recent times has come under scathing attacks from groups within the NPP for being extremely doormat.
There were media speculations that leadership of the NPP was planning to effect changes among those leading the onslaught at Parliament. Again, when the President John Dramani Mahama delivered the state of the nation address on February 26, this year, the Minority Leader, Honorable Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, alerted Ghanaians that his side would present the true State of the Nation address in six days’ time, but it took the Minority almost 10 days for that exercise.
With such posture, there is constant anxiety, murmuring and derision among some bigwigs of the NPP, as to whether the leadership of the Minority in Parliament was up to the game.
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