Appointments Committee Clash: Apologize To Ghanaians For Your Disgraceful Conduct – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Tells Majority, Minority Leaders

Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, former Majority Leader and Member of Parliament for Suame, has called on the current leaders of the majority and minority caucuses to apologize to Ghanaians over the violent altercations at the Appoitments Committee.

The members of both sides making up the Appointments Committee ended up in a clash on Thursday, January 30, while bickering about whether or not they should continue with vetting of some ministerial appointees.

The Minority caucus insisted the vetting of two ministerial nominees, Kwabena Mintah Akandoh for the Health Ministry and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa as Minister for Foreign Affairs, should be postponed but the majority dissented to this position.

The back and forth altercation led both sides to damage their tables and microphones and almost resulted in fistfight but for the intervention of the Police.

Reacting to this unfortunate incident, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu asked the Majority and Minority Leaders to render an unqualified apology to the nation.

Describing the clash as “disgraceful” and an indictment of Parliament, the former parliamentarian stated emphatically that “the two of them should come together and unreservedly apologize to Ghana because what happened was bad. It’s regrettable, disgraceful and it constitutes an affront to the image and dignity of Parliament. In that regard, it is contemptuous of Parliament”.

Source: Ghmessenger.com