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The Minority in Parliament has chastised their colleagues on the other side of the aisle for staging a walkout during the censure vote against Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n
According to the NDC group, the action does no good to the growth of the country\u2019s democracy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The caucus also sees the action as a setback to consensus building in the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A co-chair of the ad-hoc committee that probed the motion, Dr Dominic Ayine has said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Bolgatanga East legislator said even though his colleagues have called for the sacking of the beleaguered minister, they did not want to support the action by his side.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The former Deputy Attorney General thus described their move as troubling and inimical to the democratic credentials of the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey themselves have told Ghanaians they disapprove of the performance of the Finance Minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just that for a deeply partisan reason, they do not want to support the formal process that we have initiated in Parliament. I think that is a setback, as far as our democratic development is concerned.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should be able to take a principled stand and say that they are standing with the Minority for his removal.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But here is that case, though they are calling for his removal, they are refusing to partake in the formal constitutional process for his removal and I find that deeply troubling,\u201d he said in a media interview on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Majority caucus has justified its decision to boycott the censure vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In their estimation, the motion lacked merit as the allegations against the minister were not substantiated.<\/p>\n
The Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin made this known.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to him, his colleagues on the other side side of the aisle failed to do due diligence in wanting to censure the embattled minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe 44-page report by the ad-hoc committee has no findings or recommendations. So on what findings are we going to prosecute the Minister? What are we doing? It\u2019s much ado about nothing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It is political showmanship.\u00a0 Why attack someone\u2019s reputation before gathering evidence? You have no proof, and you say we should take a vote on the person?\u201d Afenyo-Markin also said in an interview on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Effutu MP added that the Minority conceded they did not have needed evidence to censure the minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the Minority was actually arguing on cross-purpose and say we should take the Minister to the firing squad. So we the Majority will not be part. The Minority has [already] conceded that they do not have what it takes to do what they are doing\u201d, Afenyo-Markin stressed.<\/p>\n
What happened?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Members of the Majority caucus staged a walkout moments before votes were to be taken on the fate of the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta.\u00a0<\/p>\n The walkout was after the debate on the report of the censure motion.<\/p>\n During the debate, K.T. Hammond, a co-chair of the committee that probed the allegations against the Minister, said they did not find a single piece of evidence to warrant the claims made against Mr Ofori-Atta.<\/p>\n But this was contested by the co-chair of the ad-hoc committee Dr Dominic Ayine.\u00a0<\/p>\n He insisted that they had \u201cunassailable evidence\u201d but were compelled to build consensus on the motion.<\/p>\n However, Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, in leading his side to stage the walkout said they cannot be part of a process that was baseless and politically motivated.<\/p>\n \u201cYou [the Minority] want us to follow you on this misadventure. Mr Speaker, like Pontius Pilate, did, we will wash our hands of this\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n Following the walkout, the motion was lost as it failed to garner the required number of votes to succeed.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, all 136 Minority MPs took part in the secret vote to pass the censure motion.<\/p>\n DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Minority in Parliament has chastised their colleagues on the other side of the aisle for staging a walkout during the censure vote against Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta. According to the NDC group, the action does no good to the growth of the country\u2019s democracy.\u00a0 The caucus also sees the action as a setback to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1263458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263456","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=1263456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}