{"id":336494,"date":"2017-07-14T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=336494"},"modified":"2017-07-14T17:37:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T17:37:45","slug":"sydneys-apology-to-parliament-weak-ras-mubarak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/07\/sydneys-apology-to-parliament-weak-ras-mubarak\/","title":{"rendered":"Sydney\u2019s apology to Parliament \u2018weak\u2019 \u2013 Ras Mubarak"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems anti-corruption campaigner and member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Sydney Casely-Hayford, is not out of the woods yet despite his apology to outraged members of Ghana\u2019s legislature, who are bent on grilling him for supposedly insulting them.<\/p>\n

Casely-Hayford has been cited for a possible contempt<\/strong><\/a><\/span> of Parliament after he said at a programme that Ghana\u2019s Parliamentarians make \u201cstupid decisions\u201d and that he would have demolished\u00a0it and turned it into a tourist site if given the chance.<\/p>\n

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He has subsequently apologized explaining that he didn\u2019t mean to attack Parliament and that he went \u201cover the top.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI indeed went over the top, I do apologize for that. I used some language which I supposed I should not have used. I unreservedly apologize because in matured conversation, when you say something that you offend somebody and you are prompted, the least you can do is to say I\u2019m sorry, it wasn\u2019t meant to be offensive, this is where I was going and if it came out the wrong way then I do apologize sincerely, I have no reservation doing that,\u201d he said on Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”d2DxYWISGvvSCRGPulh69II7SjQYTpFL”]But the Member of Parliament for the Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak, who drew the Speaker of Parliament\u2019s attention to Casely-Hayford\u2019s comments described the apology as \u201cweak.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a very weak attempt to water down the impact of the sort of very outrageous things he said. A person with his pedigree and stature shouldn\u2019t be making sweeping comments, very derogatory comments, comments that impugn the reputation of parliament. And I think he knew what he was doing. Again the suggestion that we should break down Parliament; that is like encouraging vandalism, he fumed.<\/p>\n

Ras Mubarak insisted that, Casely-Hayford\u2019s comments were meant to \u201cimpugn the integrity of Parliament and I\u2019m sure he was excited when he was getting all the applause.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI see what he is doing now is an attempt to water down what he said. The most important thing is that it\u2019s been raised on the floor of Parliament. We are hoping that leadership will deal with it with a lot of alacrity so that tomorrow people will respect the integrity and authority of Parliament,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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