Chaos erupted in Ghana’s parliament late on Thursday night time, with lawmakers destroying furnishings, and pushing and shoving one another.
Police had been known as into the assembly – held to vet Ghana’s new ministerial appointments – as MPs broken tables and microphones.
The vetting committee had disagreed over numerous points, with some accusing opposition MPs of dragging out the method with the intention to settle political scores.
On Friday morning the vetting committee’s chairman apologised to the Ghanaian public, calling it “completely unacceptable”.
The cross-party committee had been scheduled to vet three lawmakers from the governing Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC).
The trio had been nominated for ministerial positions after the NDC triumphed over the New Patriotic Celebration (NPP) in December’s elections.
Nevertheless, NDC MPs accused Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the NPP’s chief in parliament, of questioning the ministerial nominees for an unnecessarily very long time.
Greater than 5 hours had been spent on vetting only one nominee – communications minister designate Samuel Nartey George.
Many NDC MPs consider this was a type of payback from opposition MPs on the committee, who wished George to retract his criticism of former president and NPP chief Nana Akufo-Addo and Akufo-Addo’s Vice-President Mahamadu Bawumia.
Members of the vetting committee ended up on their toes – shouting, pushing and shoving one another and upturning tables.
On Friday, the NPP’s Afenyo-Markin mentioned parliamentary customs allowed committee members “the chance to investigate deeply into each nominee of the president, with out restrict to questions”.
He accused the NDC of making an attempt to “frustrate” this course of.
Because of the chaos, the vetting ended up being adjourned till Friday.
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