{"id":341168,"date":"2017-08-02T06:15:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T06:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=341168"},"modified":"2017-08-02T06:15:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T06:15:41","slug":"minority-were-confused-in-build-up-to-walkout-majority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/minority-were-confused-in-build-up-to-walkout-majority-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority were ‘confused’ in build-up to walkout – Majority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"
On the back of the Minority\u2019s walk out of Parliament over claims of bias against the Speaker of the House, the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu says the Speaker did not err in his decision to forward the motion on the AMERI deal to the House\u2019s Mines and Energy Committee without any debate.<\/p>\n
Mr. Mensah Bonsu further described the Minority as being in a state of confusion in the immediate run-up to the matter coming up on the floor of the House.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”kFNle9naToExoeYP3K8LfMHI2EkL2MbJ”]\u201cWhat even preceded the House was that our colleagues [the Minority] were not even sure what to do\u2026 we had a pre-sitting meeting and we wanted to know from them what should be done and they said to us they would not participate in the motion.\u201d<\/p>\n
“Then they came to say they will raise preliminary issues against the motion if the motion got moved. So we wanted better and further clarity on what they wanted to do. Then they said well, they will participate in the debate but would not participate in the voting. So there was that confusion within their own ranks,\u201d the Majority Leader recounted.<\/p>\n
Eventually, on the Floor of Parliament, the Minority Speaker sought to make a submission on the motion but was prevented from doing so to the ire of the Minority, who proceeded to storm out.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe left because we thought that he[The Speaker] should have allowed our leader to exhaust the case that he was making because he was citing Supreme Court rulings but he wouldn\u2019t let that happen,\u201d the Minority Chief Whip,\u00a0Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak\u00a0Muntaka said to Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n This notwithstanding, Mr. Mensah Bonsu was of the view that the Speaker of the House, \u201cin his wisdom\u201d taking into consideration the motion noting fraudulent claim, \u201cfelt the matter was too weighty to be continued so the member should go to the committee on energy and then submit what information has come to him to the Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n