A Deputy Leader of the Majority caucus, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has said that the Minority’s findings to help remove the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta from Office was hollow and unsubstanciated.
Alexander Afenyo-Markin, in a Citi FM interview justified that the majority side walked out because the censure motion had no evidence to back the minority’s claim.
He further described the motion as a political showmanship which the majority caucus cannot support.
“The 44-page report by the ad-hoc committee has no findings or recommendations. So on what findings are we going to prosecute the Minister? What are we doing? It is much ado about nothing. It is political showmanship. Why attack someone’s reputation before gathering evidence? You have no proof, and you say we should take a vote on the person?”, he explained.
The Majority caucus staged a walk out from Parliament prior to the voting to get the Finance Minister removed.
The walkout was after the debate on the report of the censure motion.
During the debate, K.T. Hammond, a co-chair of the committee that probed the allegations against the Minister, said they did not find a single piece of evidence to warrant the claims made against Mr Ofori-Atta.
After the walk out only 136 legislators on the Minority side voted which was far less than the two thirds of vote as espoused by the constitution.
Therefore, the censure motion failed giving Ken Ofori-Atta the opportunity to survive the vote of no confidence.
