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MINORITY TO RETURN TO PARLIAMENT ON TUESDAY?
Gideon Sackitey

Accra, Feb. 18, Ghanadot.com - Ghanadot investigations in Accra has shown that the Minority National Democratic Congress (NDC) are set to return to Parliament on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 after more than a week of absence in solidarity with the jailed Dan Abodakpi, MP for Keta.

A source in the NDC minority caucus in Parliament said they had made their point clearly and brought home forcefully the pain of bearing the injustice caused to their colleague MP.

“We are ready to come back to the House and contribute to nation building.”

Mr Abodakpi was jailed almost two weeks ago for wilfully causing financial loss of 400,000 dollars to the state during the previous NDC regime when he was the Minister of Trade and Industry.

The NDC boycott was considered as most significant especially as it occasioned the President’s State of the Nation Address on February 8, 2007. It was the first time in the nation’s history that the minority in Parliament have been away from the House during such an important occasion.

The source told Ghanadot said the minority caucus’ decision to go on a boycott of Parliament had nothing to do with endangering national cohesion, but everything to do with sending the right signals.

The NDC MP’s have missed several opportunities in the past week to ask questions on the floor of the House as well as contribute to the discussion on the State of the Nation Address, including answers to a run down of donor inflows since 2001.

While they were away, the MP’s held a press conference, rally in Keta and visited the incarcerated colleague.

The boycott was condemned severally in many quarters by people who believed that the NDC could have made their point even within Parliament.



Gideon Sackitey, Ghanadot.com Accra, February 18, 2007.


 

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