{"id":462525,"date":"2018-02-08T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T04:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/you-cant-walk-over-us-minority-to-mensah-bonsu\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T04:00:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T04:00:22","slug":"you-cant-walk-over-us-minority-to-mensah-bonsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/you-cant-walk-over-us-minority-to-mensah-bonsu\/","title":{"rendered":"You can\u2019t walk over us &#8211; Minority to Mensah-Bonsu"},"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,  8 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-08<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/96905973.295.jpg\" alt=\"Avedzi Minority1\" title=\"Avedzi Minority1\" width=\"295\" height=\"144\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The deputy Minority leader James Klutse Avedzi<\/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=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518062422_229_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Minority in Parliament has descended heavily on the Majority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu for castigating them for boycotting the debate  on the report of the 5-member cash for seat committee.<\/p>\n<p>The committee Tuesday February 6, 2018, submitted its report to the House, clearing the Trade and Industry Ministry of any wrong doing over claims that it facilitated the charging of expatriate businessmen a whopping $100.000.00 to sit close to President Akufo-Addo at the last year\u2019s Ghana Expatriates Business Awards (GEBA).<\/p>\n<p>The clearance of the Ministry, according to the Minority is a sham thus storming out of the House to avoid being part pf the debate to approve and adopt the report of the committee.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the boycott, Mensah-Bonsu who is also the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs slammed the Minority for attempting to scuttle Parliamentary proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The debate, he told Starr News\u2019 Parliamentary correspondent Ibrahim Alhassan Tuesday that it would go on with or without the Minority noting that they had been pampered for too long despite their continuous dishonesty to the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis House will not be held to ransom by a single individual who decides to be very dishonest. Mr. Speaker this House will not pander to pedestrianism\u2026clearly they want to hold this House to ransom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are still hallucinating and people are still yet to come out of where they found themselves after the elections,\u201d the Suame MP said.<\/p>\n<p>In his rebuttal, however, the deputy Minority leader James Klutse Avedzi dismissed the Majority leader\u2019s accusation as inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not holding parliament to ransom,\u201d he said in an interview with Alhassan Wednesday February 7, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED POSTS Cash for seat: We may go to  CHRAJ \u2013 Ablakwa<\/p>\n<p>Feb 7, 2018 \u2018Cash for seat\u2019 : New probe needed \u2013\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Feb 7, 2018 Minority boycotts parliament over Cash for Seat report<\/p>\n<p>Feb 6, 2018 \u201cBut we want to tell him also that parliament does not belong to him. We are 106 members of Parliament representing over $4million Ghanaian voters. He should not think that he can also walk over us. No, he needs us to prosecute his agenda.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if he thinks that we are not necessary, if he thinks that we are not relevant he should say it that Minority, you are not relevant. We don\u2019t need you. So, why do we come to Parliament where our views have not been inculcated in the report and ask us to debate it?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Avedzi further tore into shreds calls by the Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kyerematen for the prosecution of the Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak for causing financial loss to the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kyerematen, the Asawase MP\u2019s championing of the setting up of a committee to probe the cash for seat allegations led to the state investing in a fruitless venture following the dismissal of the allegations as lacking merit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a matter of record that this August House was summoned on the motion tabled by Hon. Muntaka not in response to a state of emergency but to investigate an allegation of the position of a levy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Speaker, the report of the Special Committee has made it clear that the committee could not substantiate the allegation of levy. In this regard Mr. Speaker, it may be possible that the associated cost for recalling may be a case of causing financial loss,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In Avedzi\u2019s view however, should anyone be prosecuted Kyerematen would be the first to be hauled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe should come and prosecute all of us,\u201d he challenged adding \u201cwhile you allowed\u2026a private investor to use the name of your Ministry, the name of the President to raise 2.6million and you gave back 2.3million to the private sector.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/zWV4fJza-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"related_articles\" style=\"width: 100%;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; font-size: 90%; background-color: #eeeaea; padding: 5px; width: 60%; margin-top: 10px;\">\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/25640707.jpg\" style=\"padding-right:2px;\" \/><\/td>\n<td style=\"border:0; padding:0;width:100%; vertical-align:middle; font-size:11px;\">For more news go to <strong>Starrfmonline.com<\/strong>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Comments:<\/strong><br \/>This article has no comments yet, be the first to comment\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 33 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Thursday, 8 February 2018 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2018-02-08 The deputy Minority leader James Klutse Avedzi The Minority in Parliament has descended heavily on the Majority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu for castigating them for boycotting the debate on the report of the 5-member cash for seat committee. 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