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The Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin on Tuesday December 16, 2025, criticised the Minister of Interior, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, in Parliament over what he described as an alleged GH¢4 billion allocation to the minister’s office following his additional responsibility for national security matters.
The confrontation occurred during proceedings on the report of the Committee on Security and Intelligence on the 2026 Annual Budget Estimates of the National Security Council.
Raising concerns on the floor of the House, Afenyo-Markin questioned the process and timing surrounding the presentation of additional documents relating to the budget estimates.
According to him, the Minority was not given prior notice nor supplied with copies of what he described as a newly printed “addendum” linked to the Interior Ministry’s expanded mandate.
“When the Minister of Interior, with additional responsibility to national security, entered the chamber, he came with all his might. Suddenly, another paper was printed and brought in. We have not been given copies,” he stated.
The Minority Leader stressed that such actions undermined consultation and parliamentary procedure, principles he said the Interior Minister himself had previously championed while in opposition.
Afenyo-Markin then accused the Interior Minister of remaining unusually silent because of the alleged allocation.
“Mr Speaker the amount in the report … when you cannot provide for Women’s bank…I was only signaling them that the amount that they have given to the minister of interior with additional responsibility…. Mr Speaker, he is not paying attention to me, with all the provocation he has decided not to respond, he has to respond.
“Mr Speaker he can’t be quiet today, honourable Muntaka is not known for being quiet, he can’t be quiet today. Honourable is not known for being quiet. You have taken 4 billion so you’re quiet. Money does not like noise … your mouth is full, so you don’t want to talk, “he said.
The presiding speaker, Bernard Ahiafor intervened at several points, noting that the report had not yet been formally laid and cautioning members against debating a motion that had not been moved.
The Minority Leader further warned the Majority against what he described as attempts to run a “one-sided Parliament.”
“These things must stop. If you want to run a one-sided Parliament, say so, and the civil society organisations will come after you,” he cautioned.
Despite the exchanges, the Chairman of the Committee on Security and Intelligence eventually presented the report on the 2026 National Security Council budget estimates, which the Speaker announced was laid and made available for distribution to Members of Parliament.
Watch the proceedings from 5:56:00 minute.
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