{"id":1138015,"date":"2022-06-30T02:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-06-30T02:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/30\/drama-in-parliament-speaker-reacts-after-npp-mp-sat-on-someones-seat-in-parliament\/"},"modified":"2022-06-30T02:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T02:27:30","slug":"drama-in-parliament-speaker-reacts-after-npp-mp-sat-on-someones-seat-in-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/30\/drama-in-parliament-speaker-reacts-after-npp-mp-sat-on-someones-seat-in-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Drama&#8221; In Parliament: Speaker Reacts After NPP MP Sat On Someone&#8217;s Seat In Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>There was a bit of drama in parliament on Wednesday after one MP by name Honorable Vincent Ekow Assafuah failed to sit on his dedicated seat but sat on someone&#8217;s seat in parliament.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/4e3ac14d823040aca4c4c14f3fc821eb\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It all started when Honorable Vincent Ekow Assafuah, MP for Old Tafo constituency sat on the seat of an absentee MP. Honorable Assafuah raised his hand in parliament to ask a question but the speaker of Parliament saw his position and made it clear to him that the seat is not for him.<\/p>\n<p>He urged him to go back to his seat before his question would be recorded in his name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Honorable, go back to your seat. Go and ask the question from your seat. Do that for me<\/strong>&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p>After making this statement to the MP, most of the MPs, especially those at the minority side also shouted at the MP to go back to his seat. There was a bit of laughter in parliament as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/27d65cafe9464b68849fefe44fab5744\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Members of parliament do not sit anywhere they like in the chamber. They have been grouped according to caucus and years in office. New members of parliament are often called &#8220;backbenchers&#8221; because their seats are always at the back. MPs who have been in their position for long are usually found at the middle or at the front of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to watch the video(30:00 onwards)<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Rexbank (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nNPP<br \/>\nOld Tafo<br \/>\nSat<br \/>\nVincent Ekow Assafuah<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a bit of drama in parliament on Wednesday after one MP by name Honorable Vincent Ekow Assafuah failed to sit on his dedicated seat but sat on someone&#8217;s seat in parliament. It all started when Honorable Vincent Ekow Assafuah, MP for Old Tafo constituency sat on the seat of an absentee MP. Honorable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1138016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[637,7025,2073,646,15362,7757,9410,4986],"class_list":["post-1138015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-drama","tag-npp","tag-parliament","tag-reacts","tag-sat","tag-seat","tag-someones","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}