{"id":400886,"date":"2017-07-13T20:09:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T20:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/07\/13\/casely-hayford-faces-contempt-of-parliament\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T20:09:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T20:09:04","slug":"casely-hayford-faces-contempt-of-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/07\/13\/casely-hayford-faces-contempt-of-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Casely-Hayford faces contempt of parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday, 13 July 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-07-13<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/86080841.295.jpg\" alt=\"Casely Hayford Class\" title=\"Casely Hayford Class\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Sydney Casely-Hayford, Member of OccupyGhana<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=149916385127052\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=149916385127052\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/1499976544_578_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A member of pressure group OccupyGhana, Sydney Casely-Hayford, may be hauled before Ghana\u2019s parliament for contempt for alleged derogatory remarks he made against the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Kumbugu MP Ras Mubarak, who brought the said contemptuous comments to the attention of the House on Thursday July 13, said the comments by Mr Casely-Hayford \u201care downright offensive, outrightly benighted, and can only be coming from a man who seems discombobulated from the world he inhabits\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mubarak told parliament that Mr Hayford said the following about current and past MPs:<\/p>\n<p>(1)\t\u201cThese people are sitting there, spending money like crazy, making stupid decisions and passing stupid laws&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(2)\t\u201cAll they think of is \u2018let&#8217;s pass this thing quickly, let&#8217;s go to Senchi Royal, let&#8217;s go and sit there and chill and come back\u2026\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(3)\t\u201cThey don&#8217;t read the papers that they are given, they don&#8217;t think through what the challenges are&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(4)\t\u201cThe first thing I will do if I had the opportunity is to break down parliament\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MP said \u201cas much as we must encourage free speech we mustn&#8217;t allow people to make sweeping comments, impugn reputations, and affront the dignity of parliament\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For him, \u201cwhat Sydney has done is to indict all of us here in the current parliament and those before us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is indicting the current Speaker, current President, former President, and the many others whose time in parliament was spent pushing for progressive legislation. 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