A reporter with a state newspaper, Daily Graphic, Mark Anthony Vinorkor is to appear before Parliament’s Privileges Committee over reports he did about the lawmaking body.
The reports were on the Constitutional Instrument (CI) which will regulate the conduct of the November polls.
Citi News Duke Mensah Opoku reported that Vinorkor’s story in the Daily Graphic explained that the two constitutional instruments which were laid in Parliament last Friday “were actually changed clandestinely and replaced with a new one on Monday” so the counting of the 21 days of maturity should rather begin on Monday and not Friday.
[contextly_sidebar id=”U0Z0PA7wNYgQhyqrD474yWcVz1UoF0t8″]He said Members of Parliament especially those from the Minority side were unhappy with the reportage adding that “the deputy Minority leader, Dominic Nitiwul said the action was a misrepresentation which has dire consequences because no member of Parliament has the right to temper with constitutional instrument that are laid on the floor of the house.”
He said following the reportage, “the reporter was hurled before the House on Thursday where he apologized but this morning he wrote another piece which sought to slight the leadership again and so they took a very unkind view to what he had written.”
Meanwhile, the accreditation of Vinorkor has been withdrawn and Graphic has been asked to replace him with another journalist.
Delivering his ruling on the matter today [Friday], the Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho said:
“I find myself in a very difficult situation, as part of the team of leadership that met him yesterday and advised him he apologized in my office now to be giving the order. Let the committee of the house in charge of this matters handle the matter. I’m therefore referring Mark Anthony Vinorkor to the privileges committee…Meanwhile I direct that his accreditation to his house, should be withdrawn forthwith and Graphic may replace him with any other person.”
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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