National Communication Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has launched a scathing attack at the Minority Members of Parliament especially the leaders and the Speaker of Parliament for defying the party’s order not to approve some ministerial nominees of President Akufo-Addo.
According to the NDC’s National Communication Officer, the decision of the NDC’s side of the House led by Haruna Iddrisu and Muntaka Mubarak to vote for the approval of some of the nominees is a betrayal of the collective interest of the NDC in pursuit of their selfish interest which has the potency of destroying the fortunes of the party.
Describing their actions as shameful, Mr. Gyamfi accused the NDC MPs and their leaders of selling their conscience to the NPP. He also took on Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin for his role in the decision that saw the approval of all 13 nominees recommended by the Appointments Committee.
While urging the rank and file of the party to remain resolute in their struggle for the party to return to power, the disgruntled party official called for a change in leadership of the Minority in Parliament stating that the current leadership of the NDC’s side of the House has lost the moral authority to lead and unfit to sit in the front bench of the House.
“Comrades, the betrayal we have suffered in the hands of the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin, the leadership of our Parliamentary group, particularly Hon. Haruna Iddrissu and Hon. Muntaka Mubarak, and dozens of our own MPs, is what strengthens me to work hard for the great NDC to regain power.
They brazenly defied the leadership of the party and betrayed the collective good for their selfish interest. And we, must not let them succeed in their parochial quest to destroy the NDC, the party that has done so much for them and all of us. The shame they have brought on the party will forever hang like an albatross around their necks,” he stated.
He added that “this is the time for us to insist on the right changes in the leadership of the NDC group in Parliament or forget about them completely. The current leadership have lost their moral authority to lead and are not fit to sit on the front bench of the NDC side of the house. More importantly, it’s about time we understood, that we don’t have any NDC Speaker of Parliament. No we don’t! We have a Speaker who rode on the back of the NDC into Office to pursue his own parochial agenda and nothing more. You trust them, at your own peril”.
This comes after the approval of 13 ministerial nominees including 3 who were rejected by the Minority MPs on the Appointments Committee.
The 3 nominees; KoJo Oppong-Nkrumah, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto and Mavis Hawa Koomson were approved after a secret balloting.
At the end of the balloting, the 3 nominees obtained the required number of votes that makes them eligible for approval.
Analysis of the votes obtained by each of them indicates that some MPs from the Minority side of Parliament voted in favor of their approval.
