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Deputy Majority leader and Member of Parliament for Effutu constituency, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has served notice to the Minority group that his side will not support the Vote of Censure motion against the Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta.
According to him, the Motion is politically motivated and has already failed, and stressed the Majority will have nothing to do with it.
“We told you it is a political motion. We will not support you, we made it clear. So that imaginative number you’re thinking of, you won’t get any support,” he said.
The Deputy leader was responding to overtures from the Minority leader for some members of the majority to support his side to pass the censure.
Speaking on Thursday 1st December 2022 during presentation of the Business Statement for next week, Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu admitted his side does not have the numbers to pass the censure.
He said, “If the Majority cooperates Mr. Speaker we will be very successful in getting a new Minister of Finance for Ghana and exit Ken Ofori-Atta.”
“If you don’t cooperate our exercise may end in failure because we don’t have the thresholds of the two-thirds majority required of 183 but some people may change their minds after today and come support us,” he added.
Mr. Afenyo-Markin in response challenged the Minority leader to respect the rules and procedures and argued the House did not hesitate in making the referral to a Committee even as the Minority fiercely opposed it.
According to him, Ghanaians watched the evidence that the Minority leader led during the Committee sitting and also listened to the Finance Minister on the allegations to the extent that the Committee unanimously dropped two of the grounds.
He said, “Mr. Speaker, we’ve read the report and it will come before the House. Nobody is against the process so he should not create any impression.”
“The mischief the Minority leader wants to create with the impression that somebody doesn’t want this censure motion, which has already failed from coming to an end; Who told you, you are going to get any support from us.”
“We will debate you on that day and prove to you it is a personal attack on the Finance Minister. We’ll let you know as we told you.”
The Deputy Majority leader stressed no member of the Majority will support the censure even during a secret ballot and stressed the Motion is an NDC matter and has nothing to do with the Majority.
