{"id":2419,"date":"2019-02-05T12:48:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=2419"},"modified":"2019-02-05T12:48:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T12:48:49","slug":"minority-walks-out-as-lydia-alhassan-is-sworn-in-as-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/minority-walks-out-as-lydia-alhassan-is-sworn-in-as-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority walks out as Lydia Alhassan is sworn in as MP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The  Minority in Parliament has walked out of the House as Lydia Alhassan  has been sworn in as MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency Tuesday  morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentarians say they do not want to be associated with the process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Minority  Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak Mohammed, told the House their walking out  is in solidarity with the victims of the violence that occurred at the  La Bawaleshie polling centre on the voting day, Joy News\u2019 Joseph Opoku  Gakpo reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026in\n to support our comrades and citizens that were unnecessarily hurt and \nbrutally assaulted, I am sorry to say that with your indulgence, our \nside of the house cannot be here to witness this swearing in,\u201d he said \namid cheers from his colleague Minority MPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei Owusu, however, went ahead and sworn Mrs. Alhassan into office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n Deputy Majority Leader, Adwoa Sarfo expressed her disappointment at the\n stance of the Minority, saying that the swearing in was in line with \nthe Constitution of Ghana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026we\n will not be perturbed by the absence of the other side. Business will \ncontinue as usual,\u201d she said amid cheers from the Majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She added that the House will continue with the business for the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe src=\"https:\/\/clip.afrad.io\/?clipId=jJto9HSZFKcu74ycR\" width=\"100%\" height=\"260px\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile,\n the Minority members of the House walked out and headed to the police \nstation to demand for what they describe as brutalities against NDC \nsupporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why is the Minority protesting?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On  January 31, 2019 electorates in the over 130 polling centres in the  Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency in Accra voted to elect a new MP Lydia Alhassan to  replace Emmanuel Agyarko who died in November\u00a02018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,  a few hours into the election, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/31\/ndc-pulls-out-of-ayawaso-west-wuogon-by-election\/\">armed men stormed the residence of NDC  candidate, Delali Kwesi Brempong<\/a> and engaged in a shooting spree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\n violence escalated to the La Bawaleshie polling centre close by and the\n NDC withdrew their agents from all the other 130 polling centres, \nciting intimidation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\n have called on the EC to annul the results. The EC however, described \nthe electoral process as peaceful save the incident as La Bawaleshie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Akufo-Addo has also condemned the incident but described it as an isolated case of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\n a twist however, Minister of State in charge of National Security, \nBryan Acheampong, said the men were National Security operatives who \nwere acting on intelligence although he said he was not at liberty to \nreveal what they were after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qWMuwBY-Rss\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/politics\/2019\/February-5th\/minority-walks-out-as-lydia-alhassan-is-sworn-in-as-mp.php\">myjoyonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Minority in Parliament has walked out of the House as Lydia Alhassan has been sworn in as MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency Tuesday <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/minority-walks-out-as-lydia-alhassan-is-sworn-in-as-mp\/\" title=\"Minority walks out as Lydia Alhassan is sworn in as MP\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[467,204,478],"class_list":["post-2419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-by-elections","tag-parliament","tag-wuogon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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