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"One would expect that an honourable person like her would have done the honourable thing. Even if your bodyguard is not there what stops you from calling the police to provide protection? Look at the situation she has created. There is no justification to what she did as a lawmaker; breaking the law..." says Most Reverend Dr. Emmanuel Asante, Chairman of the National Peace Council (NPC)

The Awutu Senya East MP courted controversy when she fired gunshots at a voters' registration centre in the Constituency.

The Special Development Initiatives Minister told Accra-based Adom News that she did it to protect herself at an instance when she felt her safety was threatened.

"I’m a Member of Parliament, I need to protect myself. It was at dawn, my police escort had not started work yet. So that is a mechanism I have adopted in his absence," she said.

Despite this justification, the act has received massive condemnation from the public domain, with many calling for her arrest and prosecution.

But Most Reverend Dr. Emmanuel Asante says as a Member of Parliament and a member of a political party that agreed to the terms in the Vigilante Act, she should have known better than to fire a gunshot.

"She is an honourable woman and I think she must resign. If she doesn’t do that I think the President must terminate her appointment. She has brought the name of parliament into disrepute. She belongs to a political party that has committed itself to ensure that violent action in relation to elections will not be entertained, and therefore I would like to believe that the political party she belongs to; the NPP will also take action," he said in an interview on Citi Eyewitness news.

"There's no reason why the exercise should be characterised with pockets of violence; it is condemnable. This is all part of the culture of impunity . . . why would she even think of using a gun at a polling station, I cannot understand," he added.