{"id":247627,"date":"2024-11-07T20:34:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/07\/stop-ranting-in-the-media-bring-your-concerns-to-parliament\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T20:34:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T20:34:03","slug":"stop-ranting-in-the-media-bring-your-concerns-to-parliament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/07\/stop-ranting-in-the-media-bring-your-concerns-to-parliament\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop ranting in the media, bring your concerns to Parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has challenged Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, urging him to address his concerns within the parliamentary chamber rather than \u201cranting\u201d in the media.<\/p>\n<p>Ayariga\u2019s remarks follow the Majority\u2019s absence from a parliamentary session on Thursday, November 7, \u2014 a session they themselves had called\u2014which led Speaker Alban Bagbin to adjourn proceedings in frustration.<\/p>\n<p>After the adjournment, Afenyo-Markin spoke to the press, accusing Speaker Bagbin of stoking political division in Ghana and expressing disappointment over the Speaker\u2019s recent press conference, which he described as \u201cnon-reconciliatory\u201d and harmful to Ghana\u2019s democratic process.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview on Eyewitness News, Ayariga criticized Afenyo-Markin\u2019s approach, saying the Majority Leader was relying too much on media commentary and \u201cspies\u201d to follow parliamentary proceedings rather than actively participating in chamber discussions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, they have abandoned their own mission. People have to go back and campaign. But you go out there and organise long press conferences and you are saying unprintable things about the speaker and threatening the speaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are a man, come to the chamber and issue the threats in the chamber. Come and argue your case in the chamber. It is not for you to go and be arguing your case on the radio,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"CvWmdGjFIP\">\n<p>Bagbin supervising chaos, undermining Ghana\u2019s democracy \u2013 Afenyo-Markin<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cBagbin supervising chaos, undermining Ghana\u2019s democracy \u2013 Afenyo-Markin\u201d \u2014 Citinewsroom - Comprehensive News in Ghana\" src=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/2024\/11\/bagbin-supervising-chaos-undermining-ghanas-democracy-afenyo-markin\/embed\/#?secret=xjskpoEoVY#?secret=CvWmdGjFIP\" data-secret=\"CvWmdGjFIP\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>#GhanaPolls2024<\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>#CitiVerify <\/strong><\/em><br \/><em><strong>#ElectionBureau<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has challenged Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, urging him to address his concerns within the parliamentary chamber rather than \u201cranting\u201d in the media. Ayariga\u2019s remarks follow the Majority\u2019s absence from a parliamentary session on Thursday, November 7, \u2014 a session they themselves had called\u2014which led Speaker Alban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stop ranting in the media, bring your concerns to Parliament - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/11\/07\/stop-ranting-in-the-media-bring-your-concerns-to-parliament\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Stop ranting in the media, bring your concerns to Parliament - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Member of Parliament for Bawku Central, Mahama Ayariga, has challenged Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin, urging him to address his concerns within the parliamentary chamber rather than \u201cranting\u201d in the media. 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