Chief Executive Officer of the State Transport Corporation(STC), Nana Akomea, has lambasted the NDC Minority in Parliament over Monday's brawl in the Legislative House.
On Monday, December 20, Parliament turned into a boxing ring as the Majority and Minority boxed when the first Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu decided to hand over to his Deputy in order to join his colleague MPs to vote on the controversial e-levy.
The MPs had fisticuffs as the Minority refused to allow the first Deputy Speaker to hand over to the second Deputy Speaker while the Majority members acted as his shield by exchanging punches with their opponents.
Addressing the issue on Peace FM's ''Kokrokoo'', Nana Akomea condemned both sides for exhibiting such violent behavior in the House.
However, assessing the incident, he blamed the Minority for starting the fight.
According to him, the NDC members (the Minority) showcased to Ghanaians and the world their intransigence which goes to tell they are not people who want to have a consensus over issues, but rather come to a meeting with a "take it or leave it'' posture which doesn't augur well for the House.
"Now, I'm clear in my mind that [the NDC] they are being intransigent," he stated.
He also shared a belief that the absence of the Speaker, Alban Sumana Bagbin, for which Hon. Joseph Osei-Owusu, popularly called Joe Wise, had to sit in his stead might have been a ploy against the Majority voting.
''It's very strange. It's never occurred since I was in Parliament that, on the day of Parliamentary sitting and in the morning when we have sat in the presence of the Speaker, we will adjourn and come back and the Speaker is nowhere to be found. Leadership cannot find the Speaker. It's very, very strange."
Nana Akomea further expressed that he has lost hope in the 8th Parliament due to the incidents that have since characterized proceedings in the House.
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