A verbal discourse ensued at a Parliamentary sitting on Wednesday when the Minister of Works and Housing, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah appeared before the Assurances Committee under the chairmanship of Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.
Having found comments made by Mr. Oppong Nkrumah distasteful, Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Mr. Ablakwa who was presiding over the sitting furiously urged the minister to withdraw his statement.
Mr. Oppong Nkrumah had in his submission to the committee claimed that Chairman Ablakwa was using his committee as a “bully pulpit”, thus opening up a feisty intercourse between the two politicians.
“Honourable Minister, you will be well advised to watch your diction. You will be well advised. You will be well advised.
“I will not take that. To suggest that I am using this position as a bully pulpit, you have to retract that because that is not what I’m doing here. I am well within my standing orders.
“You have to retract that. You must retract and apologize for that statement,” Mr. Ablakwa cautioned.
But it is okay for the chairman of the committee and the committee to accuse the minister of being insincere, of deflecting without more, and I do not have the right to answer or to say that I share a different view,” Mr. Oppong Nkrumah shot back.
The altercation which went on for a few minutes subsided when a member of parliament on the committee asked the media to discontinue the live broadcast.
A request Chairman Ablakwa quickly shot down.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM/Mitchell Asare Amoamah