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The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for the Shai-Osudoku constituency, Linda Akweley Ocloo, says she sees nothing wrong with what the Minority did in Parliament during the swearing in of newly elected MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Lydia Seyram Alhassan.
Linda Ocloo, who lost her husband last year and was reportedly absent in the august House due to ill-health on Tuesday, February 5, 2019, described the Minority's walkout and the display of placards with the inscription ‘Bloody Widow’ as “Politricks” and a norm in Parliament, and should not be blown out of proportion by the media.
“I saw the placards but I see nothing wrong with that. The minority was just expressing their grievances on what happened during the by-election. They never attacked the woman in person,” she said in an interview with NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’, Tuesday, February 6, 2019.
The Minority walked out of Parliament in protest of the swearing in of newly elected MP for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Lydia Seyram Alhassan.
Jeers & Wielding of Placards
Some Minority MPs continuously yelled, "shame", and jeered as the Speaker of Parliament read the summons from the Electoral Commission.
Some also held up placards with the inscription “bloody widow”, in reference to the confusion in the incidents of brutality from National Security personnel during the by-election.
“In commiseration to support our comrades and citizens that were unnecessary hurt and brutally assaulted, I am sorry to say we cannot indulge in this. Our side of the house cannot be here to witness this swearing in,” the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak said on the floor of the House.
Bad Precedent
The swearing-in on Lydia Seyram Alhassan went ahead as the Deputy Majority Leader and MP for Dome Kwabenya, Sara Adwoa Safo chided the Minority’s posturing as “disappointing” and a “bad precedent.”
But Linda Akweley Ocloo insisted that her party did nothing wrong - “In politics, you have to defend your party at anytime, that is what the minority did. Maybe they might have said something wrong but let’s understand that its politics. We are not enemies in parliament”.
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