The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, KT Hammond, is accusing the Speaker of Parliament of bullying minority law makers in the House.<\/p>\n
According to him, the Speaker, Edward Doe Adjaho and his Deputy, Ebo Barton Odro, have in recent times been intimidating \u00a0minority MPs who rise to contribute to discussions in Parliament.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the Point Blank segment on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, KT Hammond stated that the two leaders\u00a0of Parliament are treating them like \u201cschool kids.\u201d<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”Snit0fifjiEYzE0NvJh5iY9iNiZlmbdT”]\u201cThere is a bigger picture that is manifesting itself in Parliament now; we are being bullied by the speakers. I don\u2019t think it is right, we are not babies. We are being treated like school kids. It is not fair,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n Background<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Hammond made the claims in relation to his recent clash with Doe Adjaho when he [Mr. Hammond] made a supposed damning comment about\u00a0the President\u2019s State of the Nation Address.<\/p>\n The Adansi Asokwa MP said \u201cthe president is entitled to his optical illusion\u201d for stating that some road projects in his constituency were progressing steadily which he thought was not the case; but the Speaker asked\u00a0him to withdraw the statement.<\/p>\n The MP on Eyewitness News<\/strong> recounted how the Speaker of Parliament had described his comment as a \u201cloose talk\u201d saying it was \u201cunparliamentary\u201d for Doe Adjaho to use such words on him.<\/p>\n \u201cI haven\u2019t seen anything like this in my life in the years that I have been in\u00a0Parliament. Speakers don\u2019t behave like this. I\u2019m very serious to the extent that our main speaker, Doe Adjaho said that what I was talking about was loose talk. The other one, Honorable Barton Odro also challenged my colleague Asiamah when he presented a set of documents.”<\/p>\n \u201cWhat did I do wrong? I\u2019m not sure I did anything wrong. When you become a speaker, you eschew all your political inclinations, ideologies and play a neutral referee role. Our speaker I think sometimes forgets that he is a Speaker and thinks maybe he is still the MP for Ave-Avonor because plainly what the Speaker is doing and the insult that he heaped on us the other day was breathtaking,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Member of Parliament for Adansi Asokwa, KT Hammond, is accusing the Speaker of Parliament of bullying minority law makers in the House. According to him, the Speaker, Edward Doe Adjaho and his Deputy, Ebo Barton Odro, have in recent times been intimidating \u00a0minority MPs who rise to contribute to discussions in Parliament. Speaking on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}