Member of Parliament (MP) for the Ada constituency, Comfort Doyoe Cudjoe-Ghansah, has said the Minority will not kowtow to the whims and caprices of the Majority.
According to her, the brawl over the E-levy is just the tip of the iceberg if the government does not change its intransigent position. “There will be more fights if Majority does not change its position on E-levy.
The women are 20 for both sides so everyone has chosen her fighting partner,” she said in an interview on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem Wednesday. MPs have been lampooned for turning the August House into a boxing arena.
Ahead of voting on the controversial E-levy, the Minority tried to prevent First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei Owusu from voting. This angered the Majority who clashed with their colleagues. Some of the MPs were reported to have sustained injuries during the brawl.
Their conduct, described as an international embarrassment, has been condemned by many including the Christian Council of Ghana. Some Majority and Minority MPs have expressed remorse and promised not to repeat the ‘shameful’ conduct. But Cudjoe-Ghansah on Wednesday has a different position. She stated unequivocally that peace will not prevail in Parliament until the right thing is done.
“It is not for anything that both Majority and Minority have 137 members. Everyone has a fighting partner,” the Ada MP, who is also the Second Deputy Minority Chief Whip, noted.
She said they are ready for consensus if the government agrees to scrap the E-levy.
Source: Daily Guide
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This one too is in parliament. Eii…Ghana we need to be serious as a nation oo.
Who are those people who voted for this "thing" of a human being?
While researchers and NGOs are working hard to ensure that women are equalled represented at workplace and at top corporate level for equality and ethical reasons, this woman is setting us back. She has no idea how women have been excluded and discriminated against based on their gender? This woman needs to get more education. She is in parliament without principles and aims. She has no clue what she wants to achieve in parliament. Your first duty is to make laws to ensure equity and social justice for all and reduce crime. I am in a pain that this MP does not understand/know her job/duties. She does not understand that in parliament we do not win debates through physical fights but through quality arguments that persuade others. She is in a wrong job as weak and unintelligent people use blows to make a case in debating chambers. Parliament must include training on ethics and respect for debating colleagues in parliament as part of professional development and I am happy to teach this for free.
It is now obvious which party is more violent. They can’t hide their nature.
Comments from the minorities after every fight in parliament betray them as the people causing all these. They show no remorse or respect. They are always hopping for a future fight because they think it will affect the government. The National security must get ready to lock parliament and cane any MP who disturb again in parliament.
Just another i-d-I-o-r! Go kill yourself.
TINY BRAIN, NO SENSE
Will she survive the next fight to tell her story? Cheap talk.
I belive in you beat them even that ***barred word*** akofu addo come mahama will teach him power
You will be the first to go if you try!