{"id":65867,"date":"2014-11-17T14:36:18","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T14:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=65867"},"modified":"2014-11-17T16:00:02","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T16:00:02","slug":"group-to-picket-at-parliament-over-daboya-mps-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=65867","title":{"rendered":"Group to picket at Parliament over Daboya MP&#8217;s comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Women\u2019s Rights Activist are planning on picketing at the entrance of Ghana\u2019s Parliament to compel the Speaker of Parliament to sanction the Member of Parliament (NP) for Daboya Mankarigu, Nelson Abudu.<\/p>\n<p>The MP proposed during a debate on the Intestate Succession Bill in Parliament that, adulterous women should be hanged or stoned to death.<\/p>\n<p>His suggestion has attracted public outrage, <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/16\/occupyghana-demands-daboya-mp-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>with some calling for his resignation.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;cPPAaUWrSnjlKWFeEXJThUPyiPFpTUwB&#8221;]Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, one of the activitists, Kathleen Addy said the MPs call was inappropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Kathleen said the group will protest until the MP is sanctioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026\u2026when a Member of Parliament stands up boldly in front of other lesgilators including women and just opens his mouth and says excuse me to say rubbish, I expect the Speaker of Parliament to sanction the gentleman for saying the things that he said,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a former Minister of Women and Children\u2019s Affairs, Hajia Alima Mahama has described as offensive, suggestions by the Daboya MP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think he is even aware of what is happening in Ghana. He is in coma, he is in a deep sleep. He should wake up.Ghanaian women are progressing and there is no turning back so I\u2019m surprised that supposedly an hounrable man can get up\u00a0 on the floor of Parliament and make such a statement\u2026Things have changed in Ghana and he should be told clearly\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another Women\u2019s Rights Activist, Mercy Adjabeng said the MP&#8217;s proposal contravenes the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Adjabeng\u00a0 emphasized the need for the &#8220;leadership of Parliament to bring the attention of the lawmaker to the fact that his proposals are in contravention with the constitution\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government must react to the statement by assuaging the fears of women&#8230;,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Women\u2019s Rights Activist are planning on picketing at the entrance of Ghana\u2019s Parliament to compel the Speaker of Parliament to sanction the Member of Parliament (NP) for Daboya Mankarigu, Nelson Abudu. The MP proposed during a debate on the Intestate Succession Bill in Parliament that, adulterous women should be hanged or stoned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":24970,"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":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-65867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65867","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=65867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}