The Chief Whip for the National Democratic Congress(NDC), Honorable Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, has disclosed that, the Speaker of Parliament, Honorable Alban Bagbin will meet with the various party leaders in parliament to discuss the course of action to be levelled against offenders of the law in Parliament.
Speaking during an interview, he disclosed that, an agreement on probing had not been reached yet and as a result the need for the meeting.
His comment comes on the back of citizens and stakeholders calling for the Members of Parliament to be held accountable for their actions which took place in Parliament on January 7.
Touching on the happenings in Parliament, he iterated the fact that, the act was shameful and an agreement would have resolved all the situations that ensued.
He also revealed that, the former Members of the majority were not ready to engage in order to reach an agreement and also to inform them as to how things were going to take place in parliament.
“Clearly it was supposed to be the responsibility of the majority leader to lead those discussions and he failed. When he failed to do the engagement, he was failing to parliament and that’s exactly what he did.”
He lamented on the fact that, the members of the NPP met and discussed that, ballot papers were to be shown as proof after voting, adding that he had a big problem with that decision because it was against the constitution.
Touching on their win, with regards to election of the Speaker of Parliament from their side, he revealed that, the NDC was not going to be abusive of such an opportunity as purported by citizens and promised a professional behaviour by the NDC.
Honorable Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the Chief Whip of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) also described the events that unfolded as a big disgrace to the institution Parliament and Ghana as a whole, adding that, Parliament has a big lesson to learn from this.
He said in as much as the conduct was not encouraging, lessons must be drawn from it with measures put in place to resolve such issue in case of any future reoccurrence.
He further said the situation could have been avoided if the parliamentarians had been patient about things and engaged well with each other to reach a peaceful agreement.
“All put together, it puts us in a bad light, all said and done I think we could have avoided this if we had engaged more.”
He also noted that, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), was to be commended for their composed nature with regards to the parliamentary members of the NDC taking the seats of the NPP.
He cautioned his fellow Parliamentarians to be mindful and also be guided with their actions in the future to ensure good conduct.
He further also indicated that, the Speaker of parliament was indeed meeting with the leaders of both parties in order for the next line of investigation or action to be taken.
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