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MPs behaving like boarding school students fighting over lack of sugar in their food — Pratt condemns Appointments Committee

Headlines MPs behaving like boarding school students fighting over lack of sugar in their food —Pratt condemns Appointments Committee
WED, 05 FEB 2025

Veteran journalist Kwesi Pratt has condemned the members of Parliament’s Appointments Committee for their involvement in the January 30 violent clashes.

Some MPs on the Committee engaged in fisticuffs to disrupt the vetting process.

They broke microphones and tables in protest against the vetting of Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, then Minister-designate for Foreign Affairs and Health respectively, as they argued they were not part of the day’s itinerary.

In view of this behavior of the Committee members, the Speaker of the House, Alban Bagbin, suspended four Members of Parliament (MPs).

The four were Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor (Majority Whip and South Dayi MP), Frank Annoh-Dompreh (Minority Whip and MP for Nsawam-Adoagyiri), Alhassan Tampuli (Gushegu) and Jerry Ahmed Shaib (Weija-Gbawe).

Commenting on the event on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” morning show, Kwesi Pratt aired his sentiments and described the MPs’ behavior as very shameful.

He likened it to “boarding school students fighting over a lack of sugar in their food, hence causing riot.”

He indicated that the incident on Thursday night, January 30, “doesn’t suit our parliamentarians. It is very bad…”

Gideon Afful Amoako
Gideon Afful Amoako

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