Parliament suspends proceedings on Day 2 of Minority boycott

Proceedings in Parliament on Tuesday, July 11 were suspended following a near-empty House.

There were no members of the Minority at the time of start of proceedings while the number of Majority members (MPs) were barely 10.

The Second Deputy Speaker, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, decided to suspend sitting thereof.

The Minority had announced its decision to follow its three members standing trial for one offence or the other.

Minority Leader Dr Cassiel Ato Forson announced this exactly a week ago after the swearing-in of the Assin North MP, James Gyakye Quayson, whose trial on Tuesday, July 11 occasioned their absence.

“I wish to serve notice that the entire Minority Group will accompany our colleague to court today and any other day that he is to appear in court,” Dr Ato Forson stated on Tuesday, July 4.

“Mr Speaker, we are solidarising with our colleague and we will not participate in the business of the House anytime our colleague is in court and we will be withdrawing form the chamber after this ceremony if the court processes indeed happen today.”

This decision was later escalated to include trials of the Minority Leader himself and Asutifi South MP Collins Dauda.

Prior to suspension of proceedings on Tuesday, Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu called for a serious conversation on the decision by the Minority.

He said the decision will have a toll on government business.

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