{"id":592090,"date":"2019-02-15T19:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">NDC MPs Tuesday morning walked out in protest against the swearing in of Lydia Alhassan, the newly elected Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon c"},"modified":"2019-02-15T19:13:02","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:13:02","slug":"minority-walks-out-as-new-mp-is-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/15\/minority-walks-out-as-new-mp-is-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority walks out as new MP is sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">NDC MPs Tuesday morning walked out in protest against the swearing in of Lydia Alhassan, the newly elected Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentarians said\u00a0they did\u00a0not want to be associated with the process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Their Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed, told the House the action was to solidarise\u00a0with the victims of the violence that occurred at the La Bawaleshie polling centre during the election that gave Lydia\u00a0Alhassan a seat in the House.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"260px\" src=\"https:\/\/clip.afrad.io\/?clipId=XNZbQb5PYzZCkYFDN\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">\u201c\u2026in to support our comrades and citizens that were unnecessarily hurt and brutally assaulted, I am sorry to say that with your indulgence, our side of the house cannot be here to witness this swearing in,\u201d he said amid cheers from his colleague Minority MPs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu, however, went ahead and swore in the new MP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The Deputy Majority Leader, Adwoa Sarfo expressed her disappointment at the walkout by\u00a0the Minority, saying that the swearing in was in line with the Constitution of Ghana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">\u201c\u2026we will not be perturbed by the absence of the other side. Business will continue as usual,\u201d she said amid cheers from the Majority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">She added that the House will continue with the business for the day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"260px\" src=\"https:\/\/clip.afrad.io\/?clipId=jJto9HSZFKcu74ycR\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The Minority headed to the police station to demand action on what they describe as brutalities against NDC supporters. They told Joy News\u2019 Parliamentary correspondent, Joseph Opoku Gakpo, the police must investigate and bring to book, the armed men who assaulted supporters of the opposition party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\"><b>Why is the Minority protesting?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">On January 31, 2019 voters in the over 130\u00a0polling centres in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency in Accra voted to elect a new MP to replace Emmanuel Agyarko who died in November\u00a02018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">However, a few hours into the election, armed men stormed the residence of NDC candidate, Delali Kwesi Brempong and engaged in a shooting spree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The violence escalated to the La Bawaleshie polling centre close by and the NDC withdrew their agents from all the other 130 polling centres, citing intimidation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">They have called on the EC to annul the results. The EC however, described the electoral process as peaceful save the incident as La Bawaleshie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">President Akufo-Addo has also condemned the incident but described it as an isolated case of violence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">In a twist however, Minister of State in charge of National Security, Bryan Acheampong, said the men were National Security operatives who were acting on intelligence although he said he was not at liberty to reveal what they were after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qWMuwBY-Rss\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async>(function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(d.getElementById(id))return;js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.10&appId=1559506714349564\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}(document,'script','facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\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>NDC MPs Tuesday morning walked out in protest against the swearing in of Lydia Alhassan, the newly elected Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency. The Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentarians said\u00a0they did\u00a0not want to be associated with the process. 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