Dr Samuel Adu Gyamfi, the former head of history and political science at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has called on Parliament to vehemently condemn and distance itself from the comments by Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, general secretary of the National Democratic Congress.
Nketiah called on Minority MPs to resort to violence in the event the Majority side decides to “bend the rules” to get the controversial E-Levy passed.
“So long as impunity will not stop, resistance has been imposed on us as a duty,” he said while addressing the party’s youth wing in the Ashanti Region over the weekend.
“If a Deputy Speaker decides to vote [during proceedings] and at the same time play the role of a referee, don’t hesitate to slap him to keep him on track.”
But speaking on Asaase Radio’s, The Big Bulletin on Monday (7 February), Gyamfi said that although Parliament has had its own share of problems, the august House must not countenance such intemperate language.
“Even though in recent times the House has degenerated into something else, the House and its norm really, will not support any such act that seems to push for social dissonance, a conflict that is to engineer processes that will halt the proceedings and activities of the House,” Gyamfi said.
He added: “…So, Parliament must vehemently, both the Majority and Minority should come out to dissociate themselves from this kind of commentary which comes from Asiedu Nketiah.”
GhanaFeed.com
