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Kobina Tahir Hammond, the Member of Parliament for Adansi-Asokwa, revealed that the NPP caucus will accuse the speaker of contempt following the speaker’s decision to postpone the House meeting indefinitely for the second time.
The Member of Parliament strongly disagreed with the Speaker’s decision in an interview to the media following the Speaker’s decision on Thursday, November 7, 2024. He stated that the Speaker disregarded the Supreme Court’s order to postpone declaring four House seats vacant which would have given the National Democratic Congress (NDC) a numerical edge over the MPs.
“The Supreme Court has simply asked that he should give an order to restore what the situation was. We recalled Parliament and when he sat the Speaker was supposed to follow the ruling by the Supreme Court accordingly so we will know that we are going back as Majority but why should the NDC rush to go and sit at the side of Parliament,” he added.
He added that because the NDC MPs were using their normal seating area, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs were not present at the session that day. He maintained that the Speaker ought to have prevented the NDC MPs from holding the House’s majority seat.
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
