We cannot do business with you if you don’t respect us – Mintah Akandoh exposes Majority leadership on standstill in Parliament

The Member of Parliament for Juaboso Constituency, Hon Kwabena Mintah Akandoh has described the NPP leadership as disrespectful.

The Juaboso Member of Parliament and a Ranking Member on the Health Committee made this statement on a Sunyani base Masemtvgh on Thursday, 20th July, 2023.

In an exclusive phone interview with the Ranking Member on Health Committee, the host, Mr Charles Akowuah Tuffour, asked Hon Kwabena Mintah Akandoh on why there is a standstill in Parliament and whether the minority is the cause as peddled in the media space.

Responding to this allegations, the Juaboso Member of Parliament immediately rubbished the claim as fuelled by the NPP leadership in the media space and quickly added that the NPP does not need the NDC members in Parliament if they are serious to carry out government businesses because they have in excess the numbers to form quorum to transact businesses in Parliament.

”Most of the NPP Members of Parliament have left Parliament to follow the Vice President Bawumia for his flagbearership race. Hon Kwabena Mintah Akandoh further revealed that the few NPP MPs who are not on the campaign trail with the Vice President believe that Akufo-Addo has taken over their Party for which reason, they are not ready to come to Parliament for the Akufo-Addo government to have it businesses transacted in Parliament.

Hon Kwabena Mintah Akandoh further revealed on Masemtvgh that one of the bane for a standstill in Parliament is as a result of lack of respect from the Majority to the Minority. To Hon Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, the current NPP crop of leaders do not respect them but pretend to do so whenever they, the Majority needed them and that cannot continue to work. ”If you do not respect us, we respect ourselves: how do we do business with you in Parliament when you don’t respect us”?

The NPP and the Majority in Parliament last week, were all over the media space accusing the NDC Minority of a deliberate attempt to impede government businesses in Parliament by absenting themselves from Parliament to the extent of describing the Minority Caucus as unpatriotic.

Hon Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, who was not happy with these comments from the Majority leadership in the public space rubbished the claim and exposed their lies. ”We the NDC Minority have always outnumbered the NPP Members in Parliament anyday there is a Parliamentary proceedings and the records are there to show. This is a fact that the Majority cannot runaway from it” he stated.

The Juaboso MP revealed that Members of the Minority Caucus have given notice to their leadership not to compromise their stance in Parliament and if they do, will face their wrath. ”I have told my leader in his face, I am one of his supporters in Parliament, that should leadership compromises their stance, then they should be ready to face some of us” he added.