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A former First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Freddie Blay, has said that the complaint filed against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Builsa North \u201cwill not work.\u201d<\/p>\n
He described the move as \u201cpolitics as usual and its part of the politics in the House\u2026I don\u2019t think it will work”.<\/p>\n
MP for Builsa North, James Agalga, has dragged the entire Minority side in Parliament before the Privileges Committee for flashing inscriptions \u2018stealers\u2019 on the floor of Parliament moments before walking out on President John Mahama\u2019s State of the Nation address.<\/p>\n
Expressing his thoughts on the matter on Tuesday on Eyewitness News, Mr. Blay said any such action is \u201cpolitical\u2026and maybe one needs to talk about it, one needs to discuss it, persuasion and so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued saying, \u201cfor you to say you are referring a whole group of people to the Privileges [Committee] and that you want the Speaker to refer it, who is going to do that? It\u2019s made up of a committee of members from both sides. I don\u2019t think it will work.\u201d<\/p>\n
He recalled that MPs wielding placards is an activity that has happened in Parliament under different governments.<\/p>\n
According to Mr. Blay, \u201cwhen President Kufuor was in power, there were quite a number of placards that were wielded by the Minority then and when Professor Mills was also in power, the Minority then, the NPP members also wielded placards…but I don\u2019t approve of it.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Politics of Tuesday, 26 February 2013 Source: Citi FM A former First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Freddie Blay, has said that the complaint filed against the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Builsa North \u201cwill not work.\u201dHe described the move as \u201cpolitics as usual and its part of the politics in the House\u2026I don\u2019t think it will work”.MP for Builsa North, James Agalga, has dragged the entire Minority side in Parliament before the Privileges Committee for flashing inscriptions \u2018stealers\u2019 on the floor of Parliament moments before walking out on President John Mahama\u2019s State of the Nation address.Expressing his thoughts on the matter on Tuesday on Eyewitness News, Mr. Blay said any such action is \u201cpolitical\u2026and maybe one needs to talk about it, one needs to discuss it, persuasion and so forth.\u201dHe continued saying, \u201cfor you to say you are referring a whole group of people to the Privileges [Committee] and that you want the Speaker to refer it, who is going to do that? …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}