According to him, their reaction is of the 'dark age' where Ghana is viewed as an uncivilized country with no respect for women.
A situation which he believes has a wanton for abuse for procedure in the country.
Paul Adom Otchere who is of the view that walking out of parliament in registering a protest is something that is acceptable as a ‘normal’ parliamentary practice but to put out a poster to call a colleague MP ‘bloody widow’ is uncalled for.
“The honourable James Agalga should be ashamed of himself,” he stressed.
Recollecting when the NPP wore dark clothes to welcome the late President Mills in Parliament, Mr Adom Otchere said it was condemned by all and sundry.
“There is James Agalga, a former deputy Minister for Interior, holding ‘bloody widow’ to a woman who contested elections after her husband died…..this is the NDC minority in parliament day of shame, it’s a day of disgrace and it’s a horrible day in the annals of Ghana’s parliament,” Mr Adom Otchere observed with disappointments.
“To call the honourable Member of Parliament, who has become Member of Parliament and who will continue to play her role as a Member of Parliament…..she is going to sit with some of these people in the committees in Parliament and they put up a poster and say ‘bloody widow’……my goodness!” he charged.
He, therefore, called on Ghanaians to condemned the action of the minority and demonstrate that women are respected within the Ghanaian society.
Walk-out
Hon Lydia Seyram Alhassan was sworn into Parliament Tuesday, by taking the Oaths of Allegiance and Member of Parliament administered by the First Deputy Speaker, Hon Joseph Osei Owusu.
Moments before her swearing-in, however, the Minority in Parliament staged a walkout of Parliament in protest against what they (the Minority) described as state-sponsored violence during the by-election at Ayawaso West Wuogon.
Sam George's justification
In a related development, the NDC MP for Ningo-Prampram, Samuel George Nettey has justified the Minority’s display of 'bloody widow' placards.
Speaking on the same platform, Sam George described his side’s action as “normal parliamentary practice”, and to further buttress his point, alluded to instances where even President Akufo-Addo and late President Atta Mills, suffered similar hecklings while delivering the State of the Nation address.
"....it is a fact that the Ayawaso West Wuogon polls was a bloody bye-election...our description was apt....i will urge Lydia Alhassan to take it in good faith...since this is a normal parliamentary practice," he said.
By-Election Result
Madam Lydia Seyram Alhassan replaced her husband as the Member of Parliament for the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency after winning the by-election held on Thursday, 31st January 2019 in Accra.
Madam Alhassan, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate, was the second wife of the late MP Mr Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko.
She polled 68.80 per cent of the valid votes cast.
Her closest challenger, Mr Kwasi Delali Brempong of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) polled 30.52 per cent while Mr William Kofi Dowokpor of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) and Mr Clement Boadi of the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG) polled 0.58 and 0.10 per cent respectively.
Shooting Incident
The conduct of the polls was marred by a shooting incident at the residence of one of the aspirants, Mr Brempong; which resulted in injuries to 18 persons and an assault on an observer at one of the polling stations.
The Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service has commenced investigations into the shooting incident.
Meanwhile the government of Ghana has established a three-member commission to inquire into the violence that marred last Thursday’s by-election in the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency in Accra.
Former Commissioner for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Francis Emile Short, chairs the Commission which also includes law professor, Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu and former Inspector-General of Police, Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong.
Private legal practitioner and former Dean of the GIMPA Law School, Dr. Ernest Kofi Abotsi, has also been appointed as Secretary to the Commission, according to a statement issued and signed Wednesday, by Director of Communications for the Presidency, Eugene Arhin.
The committee will:
(a) to make a full, faithful and impartial inquiry into the circumstances of, and establish the facts leading to, the events and associated violence during the Ayawaso West Wuogon By-Election on the 31st day of January 2019;
(b) to identify any person responsible for or who has been involved in the events, associated violence and injuries;
(c) to inquire into any matter which the Commission considers incidental or reasonably related to the causes of the events and the associated violence and injuries; and
(d) to submit within one month its report to the President giving reasons for its findings and recommendations, including appropriate sanctions, if any,” the statement explained.
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