{"id":444763,"date":"2017-12-07T19:40:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/if-you-cant-handle-power-give-it-to-us-ndc-mps\/"},"modified":"2017-12-07T19:40:59","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T19:40:59","slug":"if-you-cant-handle-power-give-it-to-us-ndc-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/07\/if-you-cant-handle-power-give-it-to-us-ndc-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018If you can\u2019t handle power, give it to us\u2019 \u2013 NDC MPs"},"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,  7 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>3news.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/19508228.295.jpg\" alt=\"Minority Parl\" title=\"Minority Parl\" width=\"295\" height=\"208\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>File Photo : Minority in Parliament<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512675659_563_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Minority Members of Parliament have asked the Akufo-Addo led government to hand over the governance of Ghana to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) if it is not ready to exhibit commitment to govern. <\/p>\n<p>The call by the NDC MPs followed the failure of five ministers to appear before the House Thursday morning to answer questions related to their respective ministries. \u201cPer the order paper, these five ministers were supposed to show up in Parliament today,\u201d parliamentary correspondent Mercydalyne Lokko reported. <\/p>\n<p>However, she said the five, Minister for Railways Development, Minister of Labour and Employment, Minister for Works and Housing, Minister for Lands and Natural Resources and Minister of Regional Reorganisation and Development, were absent when proceedings started. <\/p>\n<p>Their absence, our correspondent reported, caused an abrupt end of proceedings of Parliament Thursday. Second deputy majority chief whip, Moses Anim, informed the House that the five minister had written to Parliament to explain why they were unable to attend Thursday\u2019s sitting but did not give the reasons. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hold in my hand responses from the ministers to the table office that the table office just submitted to me. So the ministers have responded.<\/p>\n<p>If you look at the order paper we can vary the order paper [and] suspend sitting\u2026\u201d he said. But the deputy minority chief whip, Ahmed Ibrahim, was unhappy about the conduct of the five ministers, stating \u201cI can\u2019t take the response given by the deputy whip serious\u201d because the Ministers knew they had to appear before the House Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs he [Second deputy majority chief whip] telling this house that all the five ministers of state have written letters that none of them; not even one can avail himself before the house and responds to the questions that are being asked of them?\u201d he wondered. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ibrahim said it was about time government takes the business of the House \u201cvery seriously\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday is 7th December and it was 7th December that Ghana went for elections; Just within one year and five ministers of state, not even one, is before the House to answer questions. \u201cGovernment business must be taken seriously and this is the House of parliament, this is the heart of democracy, this is why 7th December Ghanaians went to queue to vote,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ibrahim added: \u201cWe can\u2019t take this and we can\u2019t believe this. Just one year, if you can\u2019t handle the power give it to us we are ready\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>Second Deputy Speaker, Alban Bagbin who presided over proceedings Thursday said the five ministers cannot \u201cuse unilateral fiat\u201d not to appear before the House. 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