The Minority in Parliament claims that First Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei-Owusu showed political bias by refusing to admit a motion filed by Haruna Iddrisu, the caucus’s leader, on Tuesday, December 7.
The motion was brought by the Tamale South Member of Parliament (MP) in order to overrule Mr Osei-decision Owusu’s on December 1 to allow the resolution on the 2022 budget statement and economic strategy of government made by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, who presided over a one-sided House.
In a letter to the Minority Leader, the Clerk to Parliament, Cyril Nsiah, stated that the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bekwai Constituency “has requested that I advise you that your motion is not allowed pursuant to Order 13(2) of the Standing Orders of Parliament.”
This seems not to have gone down well with the Minority.
“Obviously when Mr Speaker comes, we will take this matter up to possibly submit another motion on it because we believe that [First Deputy Speaker’s] refusal to admit the motion was very bias,” the caucus’s Chief Whip, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, told journalists after a crunch meeting on Monday, December 13.
The Asawase MP was livid that Joewise, as the First Deputy Speaker is popularly called, was more politically biased instead of doing the work of a Speaker of Parliament.
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He stressed that that action by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP has given the Minority no option than to wait for Alban Sumana Bagbin, a long-time National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP until his election as Speaker, to come for a fresh motion to be filed.
The former Nadowli-Kaleo MP is expected to return on Tuesday, December 14, from a medical review in Dubai.
