'What the Speaker has done is in the right direction' – Martin Kpebu reacts to adjournment of Parliament

Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has criticised the Supreme Court's handling of the parliamentary dispute between the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) over which side of the House is now the Majority.

Reacting to the indefinite suspension of Parliament by the Speaker on Thursday, November 7, 2024, on TV3, he stressed the need for further consultations between the two sides of the House to resolve the matter.

“The Ghanaian is docile, doesn’t like questioning authority, doesn’t like questioning judges, doesn’t like questioning the Supreme Court. What the Speaker has done is in the right direction. Once he says they don’t have a quorum, that will be the situation,” he said.

“We need more consultations behind the scenes. It is a democracy, Ghana is bigger than all the parties. The Supreme Court did not handle the matter well. It is negotiations; they should do something behind the scenes, they should talk behind the scenes. They should do some negotiations, the consultations have not been concluded. If there were more consultations, this situation would not be there. Let them do further consultations, let them work behind the scenes,” he noted.

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has once again suspended the sitting of the House sine die (indefinitely).

The suspension was due to the NPP MPs boycotting the House's sitting on Thursday, November 7, 2024

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