{"id":2448,"date":"2019-02-06T15:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2019-02-06T15:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T15:30:53","slug":"mps-to-face-privileges-committee-over-bloody-widow-placards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/06\/mps-to-face-privileges-committee-over-bloody-widow-placards\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs to face privileges committee over \u201cBloody Widow\u201d placards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First Deputy Speaker Joseph\nOsei Owusu today charged the clerk of Parliament to review the footages from\nthe swearing-in of Lydia Alhassan and identify the individual MPs who held the\n\u201cbloody widow\u201d tag so they face the Privileges Committee of Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/05\/wuogon-lydia-alhassan-sworn-in-as-mp\/\">While Lydia Alhassan was being sworn into office as MP on Tuesday<\/a>, the NDC MPs walked out of the house flinging placards labeled \u201cbloody widow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaker earlier on asked the\nMinority, NDC MPs to apologise for their conduct. The MPs, said they would not\napologise for their action and rather called for a review of the ruling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lydia Alhassan who adds up to the 38 female MP\u2019s in parliament is the wife of the late Emmanuel Agyarko, the late MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon who passed on in November 2018. His widow, Lydia Alhassan contested and won the seat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"168\" data-attachment-id=\"2450\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/06\/mps-to-face-privileges-committee-over-bloody-widow-placards\/lydia-agyarko\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lydia-agyarko.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"199,168\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lydia agyarko\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lydia-agyarko.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lydia-agyarko.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/lydia-agyarko.jpg\" alt=\"the late Emmanuel K. Agyrko and Lydia Alhassan\" class=\"wp-image-2450\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>But the minority caucus is unhappy\nbecause of the violence that characterized the supposed democratic exercise and\nwants a probe into the matter. The minority had also demanded that the entire\nresults be annulled because of the disturbances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Deputy Minority leader James\nAvedzi has however noted that the use of placards in the House was not new.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to him, the use of\nplacards is not always sanctioned by the leadership of the Minority and it\nwould be difficult to identify the persons who carried the placards bearing the\n\u201cBloody Widow,\u201d so the leadership of the Minority would not apologise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the ensuing tension, Tamale North MP <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alhassan_Suhuyini\">Alhassan Suhuyini<\/a> was ordered out of the House \u201cfor making noise\u201d during the session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u201cHon member for Tamale North, please leave the\nHouse. Marshall, ensure he leaves the house\u201d &#8211; Joe Osei Owusu is quoted as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By: Apt News Desk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>First Deputy Speaker Joseph Osei Owusu today charged the clerk of Parliament to review the footages from the swearing-in of Lydia Alhassan and identify the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/06\/mps-to-face-privileges-committee-over-bloody-widow-placards\/\" title=\"MPs to face privileges committee over \u201cBloody Widow\u201d placards\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2449,"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":[204,478],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-parliament","tag-wuogon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - 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