A Deputy Minister of Information has taken a swipe at the Minority Caucus in Parliament for describing President John Mills’ 3rd State of the Nation Address as divisive, and posits that the action by the Minority on Thursday is hypocrisy at the highest level.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa says it is therefore very surprising to hear that the NPP is interested in unity and national cohesion after their abhorring behaviour.
Moments after the President finished with his 3rd State of the Nation Address, the Minority Leader described the speech as the most partisan and divisive address ever to have been presented by a president of the country. As a result of this, the Minority Leader, for the first time in this country’s history, failed to be part of the retinue that accompanied the President out of the chamber after his address.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana programme, Mr. Okudzeto censured the Minority for holding pieces of papers with the inscription “all die be die”. To him, the conduct of the Minority in Parliament on Thursday can best be described as shameful and a display of “high level of noise, lawlessness and total indiscipline”.
“I am shocked at the high level of hypocrisy the minority NPP displayed in parliament; I didn’t know they are interested in unity and national cohesion. If you look at the conduct of the minority in parliament, holding piece of papers with “all die be die” the same shameful statement that everybody is condemning; its total indiscipline” he fumed.
He said the NPP truly lived up to its name as a bunch of people associated with lawlessness and unruly behavior.
“The NPP has a long history of having unruly and disruptiveness and that is what they tried to do. They tried to disrupt the president and I have never seen such high level of noise, lawlessness and total indiscipline on the floor of the House,” he bewailed.