It was wrong for the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak to have banged his hands on the table on the floor of parliament to protest a directive from the Speaker of Parliament, Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has said.
The Speaker on Thursday July 27 had ruled that: “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.”
This was after Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu was denied a second chance to ask the Minister of Food and Agriculture Dr Akoto Owusu Afriyie questions relating to government’s Planting for Food and Jobs programme.
Dissatisfied with the directive, Mr Mubarak, according to Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu banged his fist on his desk in protest to the Speaker’s ruling.
Speaking to Class 91.3FM after the development, Mr Muntaka said: “Since this Speaker came, we have been treated with a lot of disrespect. We are not given the space to raise concerns so what are we going to be sitting there doing if we can’t have the space to be heard.
“We have lost all the opportunities to show our frustration so we had to burst in anger, unfortunately, which was unnecessary.
“He is making the space so narrow for the Minority to even have their say which is the common thing that every Minority member can have. Now we can’t have our say and we can’t have our way, this is unbearable for us.”
Reacting to his outburst on the floor of parliament, Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said: “Our Orders, Order 93(5) provide that the conduct of Mr Speaker, Members, Chief Justice, Judges of the Superior Courts of Judicature shall not be raised except upon on a substantive motion.
“So the Orders provide sufficient avenue to redress any grievance of a member. This is a House of rules and procedure so if my colleague, the Chief Whip for the Minority is unhappy about a directive or a ruling by the Speaker, the avenues are opened to the person.
“I think it will be wrongful for the member to rise and be referring to the conduct of the Speaker not on a substantive motion [and] at the same time be banging the table, that is unacceptable.”
Source: classfmonline.com
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I think that the old NDC Parliamentarians like Hon Kosi Kedem, Hon. Doe Adjaho and Hon Ken Dzirasa actually set the bar very high and the present group of NDC Parliamentarians should learn from them. The games are just too much and it is really reducing the standards in the house to the dismay of many.
hahahahhahahahhahah. Losing opportunites to register frustrations in parliament? Havent you minority lot misbehaved too much already?????
Banging your hand on table in parliament, can't believe it happened, some these MPs are uncultureddd, and do not qualify to be called honourable.
And these are called honorables. Any ***barred word*** can be voted into parliament and be called honorable. I weep for mother Ghana with all these ***barred word*** going on. These are people who ruled Ghana for 8 years and still misbehaving.
They are just fo*ls displaying their ***barred word*** and their primitive attitude. Who in his right sense will join a party taking over by uncivilized people like Muntaka,Haruna Iddrisu,Inusah Fuseini, Suhuyini, Ayariga who in Ghana will be attracted to such a party? They've destroyed ndc like they destroyed PNC
What at all is NDC group looking for. Everything is not clear to you. We voted for 275 MP's so why should one person be made to speak the whole day. Most at times, comments, suggestions or views tend to be too parochial when a single mp is allowed. Allow the new faces also to make their voices heard. share your undelivered views or comments with colleague MP's to say it when your chance of speaking once is done. Learn to follow directives and your followers will not misbehave in logic or state laws.
Where do these NDC members come from. One thing is clear, cool heads and matured individuals are lacking in the NDC, how do they manage to attract so many hot heads into this party who are all noise with no substance? What happened to the cool heads such as the Kwasi Botchway's and Spio's?
Typical ndc argument! Can you give one instance where Kyei Mensah disrespected the former speaker? I really don't know what is wrong with you ndc guys. You've already declared your intention to make the parliament unworkable. Just go ahead!
In the last sitting of the previous Parliament, Kyei Mensah Bonsu disrespected the speaker. He is now here saying what?