Minority Leader and Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has alleged that some New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs are being threatened and intimidated whenever they criticise the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to him, the alleged intimidation has created a situation where some NPP lawmakers are reluctant to speak openly on issues they would otherwise raise in Parliament.
Speaking in an interview on Adom TV on September 29, 2026, Afenyo-Markin accused the NDC government of becoming increasingly intolerant of criticism from the opposition.
“You see, the NDC in government has become so intolerant, and anytime NPP MPs criticise them, they get threatened. But for politics, it is all about democracy,” he said.
The Minority Leader further claimed that some of his colleagues have privately informed him that they fear speaking on certain issues because of alleged threats.
“Anytime we criticise, the NPP MPs are threatened, and I am the one telling you. Sometimes, if some of my MPs want to talk, they will send you a message that, ‘Leader, I can’t talk,’ because once I am about to talk, they will threaten me,” he alleged.
Afenyo-Markin also claimed that some NPP MPs are occasionally invited to the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI), now known as the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), for several hours without being questioned.
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“Sometimes they invite some of the MPs to BNI for about eight hours and they won’t ask them anything. A day that Parliament will have something important, then they will invite them,” he alleged.
He maintained that such actions, if established, could undermine the ability of opposition lawmakers to freely perform their parliamentary duties and contribute to democratic debate.
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