'No amount of intimidation can cow Minority Leader Afenyo-Markin' - Prof Kingsley Nyarko to NDC

Professor Kingsley Nyarko, the Member of Parliament for Kwadaso, has said that no amount of intimidation will deter the focus of the Minority Leader, Osahen Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, or the New Patriotic Party (NPP) minority in Parliament.

His statement comes amidst heightened political tensions, accusing the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) of resorting to intimidation, brute force, and crude tactics to manage the minority.

In a sharp critique, Prof Nyarko challenged the NDC, asserting, "The NDC, with all their majority in Parliament, the so-called super majority, cannot handle the NPP, the mighty minority, unless they resort to intimidation, brute force, and crude tactics. Isn’t this strange?"

He directly addressed the alleged attempts to cow the opposition: "Let somebody tell them that they cannot intimidate the minority. They cannot intimidate the leader of the minority, Osahen Alexander Afenyo-Markin. Who told them that their inferior tactics, unaccommodating posturing, and intolerant nature will cow us, especially the minority leader, into submission? That will not happen."

The Kwadaso MP affirmed the minority's unwavering resolve, declaring, "We shall stand resolute, solid, and repel their orchestrated onslaughts on us as we continue to expose their incompetence, short-sightedness, and lack of ideas and vision to run the affairs of the country."

Prof Nyarko then turned his criticism towards the John Mahama-led government, claiming a lack of tangible progress since taking office approximately 11 months ago.

"This government hasn’t been able to implement a single transformational policy that can yield positive gains in the economy. All that we hear is reset, reset, reset. We don’t exactly know what they are resetting, except the impunity, dissipation of the image of the judiciary, and wanton abuse of power that they have been pursuing so far," he stated.

He added that the government’s obvious incompetence and lack of capacity to deliver should be their major worry and not the intolerant and intimidating posturing they are demonstrating in Parliament.

According to Prof Nyarko, Ghanaians have belatedly realised that the reset agenda touted by the government was only a fluke, a meaningless campaign tool, and a smokescreen that puts the nation on a steep slope of social, economic, and political retrogression.

Despite being "minute in size," Prof Nyarko emphasised the NPP minority’s might in strength, reiterating, "We can’t be intimidated." He concluded by affirming the minority’s commitment to its democratic role: "We shall continue to be the vanguard of our democracy, ensure the protection of the rule of law, individual liberties and freedoms, and the complete well-being of the citizenry."