Parliament has been forced to adjourn Thursday’s sitting without dealing with some business on the order paper.
The adjournment comes after the Minority Caucus abandoned sitting to solidarise with the Minority Leader, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson and Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson on their respective criminal trials.
The Health Minister, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, and the Tourism Minister, Ibrahim Mohammed, were both present to answer questions in the House, but this did not occur due to the absence of the NDC MPs.
This forced the Speaker to adjourn the sitting to a later date.
“Cases that stand in the names of the members that are present, will be permitted to ask the Ministers so that the Ministers can answer that so that they can go back to conduct other business.
“Since they [NDC MPs] are not around, I direct that they [questions] should be rescheduled,” the Speaker directed.
Meanwhile, some Majority MPs have criticised the NDC MPs for abandoning parliamentary proceedings.
According to them, their colleagues acted irresponsibly by abandoning the House.
“They were elected to come and sit in Parliament, they were not elected to come and be accompanying people to courts.
“Their constituents should take note that today, a lot of questions were asked about their educational infrastructure, health and tourism in their various constituencies but they were not in Parliament to even ask those questions.
"The Ministers were there, answers were provided yet none of them were in the chamber with the excuse that they were accompanying their accompanying somebody to court. I don’t know what kind of democracy or parliamentary procedure is this?” the Tolon MP, Habib Iddrisu lamented.
Another MP, Yves Hanson -Nortey of Tema Central Constituency also stated that he doesn’t believe in the Attorney General filing for nolle prosequi into Gyakye Quayson’s prosecution.
This, he asserts is because it does not completely exonerate him of his crimes because a new Attorney General can be appointed and the prosecution can begin again.
According to him, when he is allowed to be acquitted with a nolle prosequi, “then obviously you are setting a precedence that would linger on into the future.”
He added “For me, I think the best for him is to go through the process if he is found not guilty hurray then he comes and works with us, when he is found guilty, he pays for his crimes.
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