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Gyampo to Ghanaians: Don’t take Minority in Parliament seriously

Professor Ransford Gyampo believes the Minority in Parliament cannot be taken seriously after condemning Ken Ofori-Atta all these years, only to approve him unanimously

An associate professor in the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has called on the Minority group in Parliament to apologise to Ghanaians for demonising the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta.

His call follows Parliament’s unanimous approval of Ofori-Atta by a voice vote on Monday (29 March 2021).

In the appointments committee’s 22-page report, signed by the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament and chairman of the committee, Joe Osei-Owusu, and Rosemary Arthur Sarkodie, the clerk to the committee, members recommended to Parliament by consensus to approve Ofori-Atta’s nomination.

Gyampo questioned the critical stance of the Minority group against the Finance Minister following his unanimous approval, despite initial resistance by the NDC members.

He described the recent development as a politics of convenience and said it must be halted.

Play the ball – or the man?

“Was the minister that good in his first term to warrant such a unanimous approval? What was the basis of the critical stance against some of his policies by the Minority group?

“Was it just propaganda against him or it was sheer ignorance on their part? Were they criticising the man, just to look good in the sight of the populace? Does it mean their criticisms weren’t well founded? What?” he wrote on Facebook.

Gyampo added: “If KOA [Ken Ofori-Atta] is that much of a political saint, then the Minority group owe Ghanaians an apology for demonising the man, and henceforth, they must not be taken serious on their criticisms of government.

“We cannot be taken for granted all the time by politicians. We aren’t always that gullible. The kind of nauseating politics of convenience being practised in Ghana is a needless sale of the soul of human conscience and this must stop.”

Below is the full post:

The minority group, especially, their members who pontificate on finance and the economy, owe us an explanation on the unanimous approval of KOA as FM. I personally do not have problems with the FM, but we were, through the incessant bastardization of his policies by the minority group, made to believe that he was the most greedy, insensitive, corrupt and incompetent Minister in the previous administration.

Was the Minister that good in his first term to warrant such a unanimous approval? What was the basis of the critical stance against some of his policies by the minority group? Was it just propaganda against him or it was sheer ignorance on their part? Were they criticizing the man, just to look good in the sight of the populace? Does it mean their criticisms weren’t well-founded? What?

If KOA is that much of a political saint, then the minority group owe Ghanaians an apology for demonizing the man, and hence forth, they must not be taken serious on their criticisms of government. We cannot be taken for granted all the time by politicians. We aren’t always that gullible. The kind of nauseating politics of convenience being practiced in Ghana, is a needless sale of the soul of human conscience and this must stop.

It appears the kind of Parliament we have now may even be more toothless in rubber-stamping executive decisions than the previous ones. The minority group would only bark and hypnotize us into thinking they would assert the role of parliament as countervailing authority. But they would sing the praises of the ruling government even louder than members of the government, when they are required to assert parliamentary sovereignty. The evidence is their contradictory conducts at the Appointment Committee and the Plenary Session of the House.

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