{"id":94604,"date":"2015-02-26T14:46:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=94604"},"modified":"2015-02-26T14:46:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T14:46:35","slug":"our-silence-was-to-protect-parliaments-dignity-minority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=94604","title":{"rendered":"Our silence was to protect Parliament&#8217;s dignity &#8211; Minority leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament has explained their deafening silence during the President\u2019s State of the Nation Address on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The New Patriotic Party (NPP) members of Parliament, <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/08\/2015-budget-hopeless-minority\/#sthash.1Kj6juyV.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>notorious<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for their jeers during such speeches by the president were remarkably silent during the\u00a0address.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94612\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94612\" style=\"width: 675px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Minority-in-Parliament.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-94612 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Minority-in-Parliament.jpg\" alt=\"Minority in Parliament\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Minority-in-Parliament.jpg 675w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Minority-in-Parliament-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minority members in Parliament when the Finance Minister, Seth Terkpher was presenting the 2015 budget<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the Minority leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu the Minority caucus stayed quiet to protect the dignity of Parliament and the Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201cfor the avoidance of doubt, it is important to state for the record that we [Minority] in this House have agreed to listen to the President\u2019s insight. This self-imposition is to protect the dignity of the house and indeed the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The minority members who turned up in their black and red attires, \u00a0said they choose those colors to protest what they describe as the broken state of nation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_94580\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94580\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SOTNGH-e1424955992470.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-94580 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SOTNGH-e1424955992470.jpg\" alt=\"SOTNGH\" width=\"650\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-94580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minority Members in black<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr. Kyei-Mensah Bonsu revealed that the minority will present its version of the state of the nation on \u00a0Wednesday March 4, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>He said NPP MPs were was unimpressed by the President\u2019s address as he made the same comments during the 2014 State of the Nation address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President told us that we have been here before, last year he said the same things. We wanted to hear from the President that we were there before and we have put it behind us. Let nobody tomorrow say that the President so much mesmerized the House that we couldn\u2019t do anything but listen to him in silence\u201d, he stated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0 citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament has explained their deafening silence during the President\u2019s State of the Nation Address on Thursday. The New Patriotic Party (NPP) members of Parliament, notorious for their jeers during such speeches by the president were remarkably silent during the\u00a0address. According to the Minority leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu the Minority caucus stayed quiet to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":94619,"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":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-94604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94604","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=94604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}