'I'm Heavily Hurt': Watch Muntaka's reaction to Afenyo-Markin's apology

The Minister of the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, during proceedings in Parliament on March 5, 2026, accepted an apology by the Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, who had made allegations of corruption against the minister in the ongoing recruitment into the security services.

Before accepting the apology, however, the Minister, who doubles as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawase, opened up about how the allegation by Afenyo-Markin, the MP for Effutu, hurt him.

He noted that he had no choice but to forgive the Effutu legislator because he had apologised and withdrawn his allegations.

“It is painful to be wrongly accused or your actions to be misconstrued and be labelled differently from the intention that you have, especially when it's collated with criminality and heavy wrongdoing. But Mr Speaker, I've had a great privilege of serving in leadership in this House, probably with greater respect and with all humility to my colleagues, with those of us sitting in the chamber now. I have served in leadership longer than anybody, and I will be the last to thwart the effort of leadership in trying to help run this House.

“Except to say that colleagues remember most of the time I keep saying, ‘please, let's respect each other’. I will be the first to always say that ‘fight for the right thing to be done, make sure that wrong things are not done’. But let's not do it as though we intend to destroy each other. I am heavily hurt and heavily worried.”

He added, “If a colleague errs, using the same spot or the same microphone in the same chamber now comes back to say he has withdrawn and is apologising, who am I to say that I'm going to play God and I will not accept it? I accept it wholeheartedly.”

The Interior Minister went on to state that the allegations made by Afenyo-Markin, which were made on at least two different occasions, including the presentation of the 2026 State of the Nation Address by President Mahama, should be struck out from the records of the House.

Watch a video of his remarks below:





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