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NDC MINORITY CONFIRM TUESDAY RETURN TO
PARLIAMENT
Accra, February 19,Ghanadot – As reported on this website
this week, the National Democratic Congress Minority caucus
in Parliament is set to return to Parliament on Tuesday
February 20.
A statement issued in Accra on Monday said the NDC Minority
would be returning to the House following a meting with the
Functional Executive Executive Committee of the party.
The NDC Minority caucus said they decided to call the
boycott ,which they embarked on in solidarity with Mr Dan
Abodakpi, Member of Parliament for Keta."They were
responding to pleas especially by Mr Abodakpi and all
well-meaning Ghanaians.
"Accordingly, Members of the NDC Minority in Parliament will
as from tomorrow, Tuesday the 20th of February, 2007, resume
participation in parliamentary proceedings."
The statement signed by Mr John Tia, Deputy Mniority Chief
Whip thanked all those who showed concern, solidarity and
support for the struggle to fight injustice in this trying
period of countrdemocratic dispens on r
They described the 10-year jailing of Mr Abodakpi as a
miscarriage of justice.
The NDC caucus stated that said the ruling New Patriotic
Party (NPP) has not abandoned its declared agenda to use the
Fast Track High Courts to destroy the party through
political trials to jail the Party's leading members and
functionaries.
The decsion by the MP's to return is more than a week after
President John Agyekum Kufuor in his State of the Nation
Address on February 8 appealed to them to reconsider their
boycott of Parliament.
Ghanadot.com, Accra, February 19, 2007
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