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The Member of Parliament for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak has described his colleague legislator, Kennedy Agyapong as a bully who must be sanctioned.

According to him, Agyapong at the least opportunity tries to belittle Parliament; a move he said is “unbecoming” of a Member of Parliament.

“I will support every move to make sure that he [Kennedy Agyapong] faces the full rigors of the law,” he said.

“Ken [Agypong] is a bully. He is a chairman of the committee I serve on—the committee on communications. There are that mutual respect and rapport between us, but clearly, time and again he’s dragged the name of parliament in the mud, and I don’t think that Parliament should continue to tolerate him,” Ras Mubarak added on Citi TV’s morning show, Breakfast Daily on Monday.

Ras Mubarak’s comment is premised on a recent standoff between Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak and Kennedy Agyapong, MP for Assin Central.

Mr Agyapong was referred to Parliament’s Privileges Committee by Muntaka for reportedly calling Parliament “useless.”

Kennedy Agyapong who did not take kindly to the referral among other things called Muntaka “dumb.”

“A whole member of parliament, you don’t even listen to the tape, and you consume information and just come to parliament and say that I have insulted parliament. Let them play the tape,” the Assin Central MP said.

But Muntaka was incensed by Agyapong’s description of him, and in an interview on Eyewitness News, last Friday called for his [Agyapong’s] “suspension” from Parliament.