The Folks’s Nationwide Social gathering (PNP) has known as on the Minority Caucus in Parliament to boycott proceedings if their chief, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, is referred to the Privileges Committee.
In an announcement dated Wednesday, November 12, and signed by its Chairperson, Janet Nabla, the PNP accused the Majority Caucus of trying to suppress the views of the Minority by pushing for Mr Afenyo-Markin’s look earlier than the committee.
The assertion follows a petition by Majority Chief Mahama Ayariga to Speaker Alban Bagbin, requesting that Mr Afenyo-Markin be referred to the Privileges Committee for allegedly defying a parliamentary decision. Mr Afenyo-Markin reportedly attended an ECOWAS Parliament session in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, from September 25 to twenty-eight, 2025, regardless of his elimination from Ghana’s delegation.
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Addressing Parliament on Tuesday, November 11, Mr Ayariga claimed that the ECOWAS Parliament initially refused to swear in Ghana’s delegation due to Mr Afenyo-Markin’s look, describing the conduct as a breach of parliamentary privilege that warranted disciplinary motion.
Responding to the event, the PNP accused the Majority of undermining parliamentary democracy. The assertion learn:
The NDC Majority in Parliament has unilaterally altered long-standing parliamentary protocols which have, through the years, ensured balanced illustration of each the Majority and Minority caucuses in ECOWAS delegations.
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It added:
As an alternative of sustaining this democratic stability, the federal government handpicked its most popular representatives, sidelining the Minority Chief. This can be a full departure from Ghana’s democratic norms and an affront to parliamentary equity.
The celebration additional urged the Minority to “boldly defend the Structure and resist all undemocratic makes an attempt by the NDC authorities”, warning that if Mr Afenyo-Markin is unfairly dragged earlier than the Privileges Committee, a parliamentary boycott must be thought-about as a reputable act of protest.
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The PNP additionally raised issues about what it described because the “unfair elimination” of former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo, alleging judicial interference. It known as on worldwide our bodies, together with the United Nations, the Workplace of the Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights, the African Union, and ECOWAS, to take pressing curiosity in what it described as Ghana’s “deteriorating” democratic atmosphere.
