The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) Sulemana Braimah has told the Minority to focus on their parliamentary duties for which they were voted to perform and stop being in courtrooms to solidarize with their members who are standing trials.
Mr Braimah said MPs make laws, not interpret those laws.
In a tweet, he said “And even if Minority MPs believe that what is going on is persecution rather than prosecution, they have to remember that they were elected and are paid to do parliamentary business and not to solidarise with colleague MPs in courtrooms. MPs make laws. MPs don’t interpret laws.”
And even if Minority MPs believe that what is going on is persecution rather than prosecution, they have to remember that they were elected and are paid to do parliamentary business and not to solidarise with colleague MPs in courtrooms. MPs make laws. MPs don’t interpret laws pic.twitter.com/VYnZL5rQSo
— Sulemana Braimah (@sulemana) July 14, 2023
The Speaker Alban Bagbin has asked the Minority Caucus to present a written, not oral, permission before being recognized as absent with permission on days they go to court to solidarize with their colleagues standing trial.
“So the burden will now shift onto you as a group to show evidence that my good self has granted you permission to absent yourselves in writing.”
The Minority, immediately after the swearing-in of Assin North Member (MP) James Gyakye Quayson, announced its decision to boycott proceedings each time he appeared before court on his criminal charge.
So far, two boycotts have been staged and both have been marked as absent for the Minority members and this is what is not going down well with them.