Reports reaching Peacefmonline.com indicate that the Minority in Parliament is threatening to file for the impeachment of the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye.
The Minority has accused the Speaker of undermining the neutrality of the country's Legislative House.
According to them, the Speaker has been showing gross levels of bias towards the Minority.
A complaint by the Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu was filed against the Speaker on Thursday, July 27.
Hon. Haruna Iddrisu noted that the Speaker had restrained him from posing more than one question to the Minster of Food and Agriculture (MOFA), Dr. Owusu Afriyie Afoko, who was on the floor to answer questions pertaining to the government's "Planting For Food and Jobs" programme.
Hon. Iddrisu is said to have been angered by the decision of the Speaker.
"You know the essence of parliamentary questions is significant and integral to the exercise of oversight. Your refusal to allow me even as Minority Leader to proceed can only be an effort to cripple us. We respect you as chair of this house; we have a responsibility as leadership to support you in maintaining order in this house," he exclaimed.
Hon. Iddrisu's remarks received some responses from the Speaker who also said; “I have consistently made it clear to both sides of the House – Majority and Minority – that no one will be allowed a double bite as I said on many occasions to both the Minority and the Majority. In all honesty you all know that.
“Let me make it clear that this argument was most unnecessary and that in future what is going to happen is no leader shall have double bite at the chamber."
Hon A.B. Fuseini, a ranking member of the Communications Committee of Parliament has disclosed that Prof. Mike Oquaye's behaviour may force the House to take an "unprecedented action" against him if his attitude persists.
“For want of a better term, the Speaker has exhibited gross levels of bias that is unbelievable. In the annals of the history of parliament, I have never seen this kind of behaviour. There is always reverence and respect for the leadership and when it comes to the leadership there is a special dispensation Speakers give to the leadership and this is not the first time the Speaker has treated our side with this level of disrespect and I think that we are reaching the end of the rope with that kind of behaviour.
“We are going to be forced to take maybe an unprecedented action that has never happened in the annals of our fourth republic . . . We are very close and there are a number of options available to us as Minority to exploit including the impeachment of the Speaker . . . [Impeachment] is an option available to us to exercise and when we deem it fit, we are going to exercise it if things don’t change,” he said.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Impeach who? these guys are not serious! Do they even understand the political and ethnic repercussions of what they are talking about? If impeachment was that easy, the previous speaker would have been the first to impeach. Akuffo Addo is such a nice guy, by now most of these people should have been commuting to the CID and BNI offices every day.
I am annoyed , P1$$ed of big time with these w0rThles NDC, u$ele$$and utter F0000lish parliamentarians who think they can take Ghanaians for ***barred word***. Doe Adjahoe is on record as the worst and most inc0mpetent, bias and clu£less speaker Ghana has ever had and as a matter of fact the wor$t in the world and yet these NDC MPs' when in majority shamefully sided with him. You know what? Ghana is a big bl000dy joke.
NDC parliamentarians are suffering from 'MINORITISOMIASIS'. It is a mental disease that you contract when you can no longer think properly to make decisions as a minority parliamentarian.
NDC parliamentarians are suffering from 'MINORITISOMIASIS'. It is mental disease that you contract when you can no longer think properly to make decisions as a minority parliamentarian.
COMIC JOKES. NDC THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE VALUELESS PARTY. THEY ARE UNABLE TO HANDLE THEMSELVES IN OPPOSITION JUST BECAUSE NO MONEY FLOWS IN FROM NAYIONAL COFFERS. KOKU ANYIDOHO'S MOUTH WILL NOW BE REDUCING IN SIZE AND WILL NOW BEGIN TO TALK SENSE.
Hahahaaaaaa!!!!!! Impeachment? go ahead. Guess you know the quorum required to impeach. Jokers. Masre saaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!. Dont worry you will get used to opposition
NDC is really struggling in opposition
…..Like I said in my prior post, this Minority leader, Mr. Iddrisu and his Minority group act like a bunch of needy students with ineffective leader….. Are these the people Ghanaian voted to parliament as lawmakers? Please Mr. minority leader, you and your group should get out of these students' behavior and start acting like lawmakers. Aba!
Irresponsible minority. You guys are a joke to our political dispensation. All of a sudden you have found a new vocabulary to abuse "impeach". What a pathetic opposition. EC chair impeachment comes up, opposition say they want to impeach speaker of parliament, Ameri deal review comes up all of a sudden Apak also goes to supreme Court seeking for the reversal of the $2.5b bond. Are you guys st**id or just plain childish and lack maturity? What a country and an irrisponsible opposition.
I wish them good luck. So, they know Speaker has not been fair to them? Well, what of Charlotte Osei who has been accused of appropriating huge sums of public money to herself? Were they not attacking Nana Addo for being a mastermind of the impeachment process initiated by some concerned staff of EC?