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The Majority NPP in Parliament is urging the Speaker of the House to call on the Minority NDC Members of Parliament to apologise to the newly sworn-in Memb"},"modified":"2019-02-15T19:17:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:17:55","slug":"bloody-widow-majority-mps-demand-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/15\/bloody-widow-majority-mps-demand-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Bloody Widow: Majority MPs demand apology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Majority NPP in Parliament is urging the Speaker of the House to call on the Minority NDC Members of Parliament to apologise to the newly sworn-in Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency. <\/span><\/p>\n

Raising the issue on the floor of the House on Wednesday, Deputy Majority Whip<\/span>\u00a0told the House \u201cWe should not set a bad precedent in this house.\u201d He was referring to the placard inscriptions of the Minority which characterized Lydia Alhassan as a \u201cbloody widow,\u201d while boycotting her swearing in. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew Nyindam, told the speaker \u201cI will want to call on you to do the honourable thing by [calling on them to] eat back their words and apologize to the house, apologize to the women in this house and apologize to our hourable member of Parliament, Hon Lydia Seriam Alhassan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

NDC MPs must <\/b>apologise<\/b> for \u2018Bloody Widow\u2019 placards – Prof. Gadzekpo<\/b><\/p>\n

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According to the Majority, yesterday\u2019s protest against the widow of the late Kyeremanteng Agyarko, \u201cis an attack not just on our colleague member of Parliament, but it is an attack on women in general. And it is an attack that\u00a0speaks on the widows we have in the House,\u201d Nyindam said. <\/span><\/p>\n