The New Patriotic Party(NPP) has asked its three suspended Members of Parliament(MP) to ignore the directive and attend proceedings.
The General Secretary, Justin Frimpong Kodua said this during a press conference in Parliament on Tuesday.
Mr Kodua insisted that Speaker Alban Bagbin‘s order was illegal, unconstitutional and therefore will have no effect on their members.
“This is an illegality we will not even waste time to give prudence to. Being the Speaker doesn’t mean you make the laws if the standing orders or any statute gives the Speaker the power to suspend, it would have been stated.
“If anything happens, it has to be referred to the Privileges Committee. So with this, what precedents are you setting? We won’t accept this suspension and have directed our MPs to come to Parliament if the Speaker stops them, we will advice ourselves,” he said.
Three NPP MPs Frank Annoh-Dompreh (Minority Chief Whip), Alhassan Sulemana Tampuli (Gushegu MP), and Jerry Ahmed Shaib (Weija-Gbawe MP) are on two-weeks suspension following the chaotic incident at the Appointments Committee vetting.
Rockson Nelson Dafeamekpor Majority Chief Whip and South Dayi MP has also been suspended over the incident.
The turmoil erupted during the vetting of ministerial nominees Kwabena Mintah Akandoh and Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, as tensions flared between the Minority and Majority caucuses.
Following the widely condemned incident, Speaker Alban Bagbin on Friday suspended four MPs and instituted a bipartisan committee to probe and submit its report within 10 days.
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