{"id":592104,"date":"2019-02-15T19:17:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">A Political Science lecturer at University of Ghana has urged Minority Parliamentarians to exercise decorum in their quest for justice for victims of January"},"modified":"2019-02-15T19:17:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:17:13","slug":"wait-for-ctee-report-political-science-lecturer-tells-ndc-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/15\/wait-for-ctee-report-political-science-lecturer-tells-ndc-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait for C\u2019tee report, Political Science lecturer tells NDC MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">A Political Science lecturer at University of Ghana has urged Minority Parliamentarians to exercise decorum in their quest for justice for victims of January 31 violence at La Bawaleshie in Accra. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Dr. Isaac Owusu-Mensah told the AM Show on the Joy News channel on MultiTV Wednesday that the MPs should give due process a chance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">He explained that the incident that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MPs are protesting against is not a week old so to expect results from the security agencies would be non-practical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">\u201c\u2026so if they expect the government to have findings in less than a week, then they do not expect the police to do any good work,\u201d Dr. Owusu-Mensah told host, Mamavi Owusu Aboagye.<\/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\">He added that \u201cif the committee report comes out and it\u2019s not their favour they can take their next level of action.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Dr. Owusu-Mensah\u2019s comments come in reaction to the walkout of the Minority in Parliament on Tuesday while Lydia Alhassan was being sworn in as MP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p68KbL_QGj4\" width=\"550\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">The Minority Chief Whip said on the floor of the House that\u00a0the MP won the seat in a process they disagree with so they won\u2019t be a part of her swearing in.<\/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\">While walking out, the MPs held placards with several inscriptions. The most popular among them being \u201cBloody Widow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Mrs. Alhassan was the late Emmanuel Agyarko\u2019s wife before his passing which made the seat vacant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Scores of Ghanaians have since called out the MPs for the unsavoury reference but they are unfazed.<\/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 NDC has defended their action saying that Lydia Alhassan was a beneficiary of the violence that ensued at one of the over 135 polling centres hence their action.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">Dr. Owusu-Mensah while condemning the action of the NDC MPs noted that their explanation does not hold water. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial,sans-serif\">He said Mrs. Alhassan contested the election on fairgrounds and was not responsible for the violence hence their tag on her was uncalled for.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/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>A Political Science lecturer at University of Ghana has urged Minority Parliamentarians to exercise decorum in their quest for justice for victims of January 31 violence at La Bawaleshie in Accra. 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