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Apologise or face the consequences,
Minority tells Koku Anyidoho
Audrey Agyiri-Inkoom,
Ghanadot
Accra, Dec 17, Ghanadot - The Minority in
Parliament has given the President’s
Director of Communications, Koku Anyidoho an
ultimatum to apologise to the Minority Chief
Whip, Hon Frederick Opare Ansah, or face the
consequences.
Mr. Anyidoho, who came under heavy criticism
after descending heavily on the minority, or
to be precise, the Member of Parliament for
Suhum, made those comments in reaction to
calls by the minority, that President Mills
should come out with names of those persons
whom Kwame Pianim had claimed attempted to
bribe the President with “brown envelopes”.
He also described the minority as
“irresponsible”, bellicose whimsical and
capricious.
In addition, he had described the minority’s
stand as nonsensical.
Hon Opare Ansah who was also of the view
that impeachment proceedings could be
initiated against the president in line with
article 69 (1) of the 1992 constitution, if
it is established that, indeed President
Mills merely rejected the alleged bribe
offer, but failed to report to the Police
those people who attempted to bribe him, for
prosecution.
In line with this, the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
General Secretary, Nana Ohene Ntow, in an
interview on Citi FM, made a remark that,
certainly the party will support that, since
people in responsible positions of public
office should not be allowed to use such
offensive language.
“I think that we need to accept to avoid the
occurrence of such behaviour in the future.
For the officer involved to have used such
language against members of Parliament, (a
very vulnerable part of our government), I
think this is the sort of things that we
need to take steps to avoid.”
Failing to do so, Mr Opare Ansah and the
Minority are likely to ask Parliament to
drag him before the privileges committee of
the House.
Ghanadot
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