NPP MPs can boycott Parliament, NDC will Repeal Their Obnoxious Taxes-Dominic Akuritinga Ayine

Bolgatanga East MP Dominic Akuritinga Ayine has urged New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentarians to uphold their vow to abstain from parliamentary proceedings, as declared by Effutu MP Alexander Afenyo-Markin.

On Thursday, October 17, Afenyo-Markin, the head of government business in Parliament, announced that NPP lawmakers will abstain from all legislative activity indefinitely in opposition to Speaker Alban Bagbin’s decision to vacate four parliamentary seats.

 

Ayine, a former deputy attorney general, emphasized that legislative work would go as planned on Friday, October 18, regardless of whether the NPP follows through with its boycott in an interview with Bernard Avle on the Citi Breakfast Show.

He made it clear that the House would meet again on Tuesday, October 22, and that NPP MPs would not be required to attend.
Ayine also brought up the fact that the NPP’s abrupt decline in members of the House has resulted in an effective shift from Majority to Minority status in the wake of the Speaker’s order.

 

Majority decision-making is based on numbers, and it is evident as day that we [the NDC] have more numbers than they [the NPP]. They belong to the minority, while we are the majority. The four lawmakers are no longer Members of Parliament, and the marshals of Parliament have the authority to bar them from entering the chamber. Until this Parliament ends, their chairs will remain empty.

Ayine had intimated that when the NDC reconvenes in Parliament, they would move quickly to eliminate the e-levy. He clarified that the NDC was prepared to use Article 108 of the Ghanaian Constitution, which permits private member’s bills to be introduced in order to change or repeal tax legislation, in order to remove the e-levy.

More than half of the members of Parliament are in favor of our position when we sit. The NPP should refrain from interfering as we will begin enacting our manifesto even on Tuesday and will proceed to remove the e-levy. According to Article 108, private members’ bills may be used to overturn tax laws like the e-levy.

“We can start the impeachment process against the president if he refuses to comply with certain things, which constitute high treason.” The president cannot continue to disregard certain things.

The NDC MP for Amenfi Central, Andrew Amoako Asiamah, an independent member for Fomena who has returned to the NPP before of the 2024 elections, Kwadjo Asante, an NPP MP for Suhum, and Cynthia Mamle Morrison, an NPP MP for Agona West, were all affected by Bagbin’s decision.