{"id":399620,"date":"2018-02-08T15:57:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T15:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399620"},"modified":"2018-02-08T16:16:02","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:16:02","slug":"ndc-mps-don-black-plaster-mouths-in-protest-against-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=399620","title":{"rendered":"NDC MPs don black, plaster mouths in protest against gov’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minority National Democratic Congress [NDC] caucus in Parliament, showcased varying symbols of protest during President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s State of the Nation address today [Thursday].<\/p>\n

A number of them were seen in black apparel, whilst others had pieces of plaster on their mouths, symbolizing some sort of gagging.<\/p>\n

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Most of the Minority MPs were clad in black during the State of the Nation Address<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, was himself, wearing black traditional Dagomba wartime regalia.<\/p>\n

During the national anthem, the Minority MPs made sure they empathized the parts of the verse that said: “…and help us to resist\u00a0oppressors’ rule with all our will and might for evermore.”<\/p>\n

They subsequently chanted that section of the anthem suggesting that they were resisting some form of oppression from the New Patriotic Party government.<\/p>\n

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Bongo MP, Edward Bawa was pictured with plaster on his mouth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaking to Citi News<\/strong> after the President’s Address, NDC MP for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak, explained that the NDC legislators had to voice their\u00a0opposition to what they perceived to be an erosion of Ghana’s democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe plaster on my lips was to express my disappointment about the rising cost of living in the country and silently to protest against fuel price increases, the increasing incidents of insecurity in the country and to let the people of Ghana know that we are unhappy about what is also happening in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

“…As you can see, our democracy is taking a dip. As you can see, things are not happening the way they should. The party promised the people of Ghana milk and honey from the skies. Unfortunately, we are not seeing any relief for the mothers. We are not seeing any relief for students,” Ras Mubarak said.<\/p>\n

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This comes on the back of a\u00a0staged walkout<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in Parliament on Tuesday when the \u2018cash for seat\u2019 investigative report was being debated in Parliament.<\/p>\n

The Minority side said it believed the report\u00a0reflected only the views of the Majority side on the Committee.<\/p>\n

The walkout was followed by a sit-down protest<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on Wednesday where the Minority MPs refrained from taking part in discussions on the Floor of Parliament despite being present.<\/p>\n

‘Address of promises’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Haruna Iddrisu has described the President\u2019s State of Nation Address as \u2018State of Promises\u2019 after the President\u2019s address in parliament today [Thursday].<\/p>\n

Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, said the President’s address was more of a campaign speech, and that all the President did was to talk about what he is going to do instead of what his outfit has done so far.<\/p>\n

\u201cVirtually, he was just talking as if he was on a campaign trail, still making promises…instead of him to be telling us exactly what he has been able to do in 2017, the President wasted all the time talking about what he was going to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Minority National Democratic Congress [NDC] caucus in Parliament, showcased varying symbols of protest during President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s State of the Nation address today [Thursday]. A number of them were seen in black apparel, whilst others had pieces of plaster on their mouths, symbolizing some sort of gagging. The Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, was himself, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":399670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3,129,533,4269],"class_list":["post-399620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-ndc","tag-parliament","tag-sotnghana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399620","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=399620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}