$100,000 saga: Throw out Minority’s 'very incompetent' motion – Majority

The emergency motion brought before parliament by the Minority vis-à-vis the $100,000-for-seats saga, is so “incompetent” and standing on “wobbly legs” that it cannot be admitted for debate in the house, Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has said.

In Parliament on Friday, 5 January, the Majority argued that it was befuddling that the Minority will have the Speaker recall the house to debate an issue which was not even signed by the Minority Chief Whip who first raised the matter on the floor of the house as well as the 76 other Minority MPs who purportedly signed the memo to constitute the 15 per cent minimum parliamentary requirement for such a recall.

Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu also wondered why the Minority would have parliament reconvene only to “pray” and “correct votes and proceedings”.

He said the Minority’s motion is fraught with “misrepresentation” and “it will be a gross abuse of the processes of this house to come and pray, to engage in correction of votes of proceedings” instead of focusing on the allegations that the presidency and the Minister of Trade of Industry extorted $100,000 from expatriate businesspeople who joined President Nana Akufo-Addo at an awards dinner late last year.

“…Today we are witnessing a flip-flopping, changing of the goal post, today the motion before us has nothing to do with extortion,” Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said.

“What we have before us is incompetence, it’s a very incompetent motion which cannot be entertained in this house. Mr Speaker people should grow in this house,” he admonished, adding the motion is on “very wobbly legs, this is a veritably incompetent motion, so, I pray you to dismiss it, let them come properly, even if they come today, we are ready to debate.”