The new Majority Leader, Ato Cassiel Hayford, has lauded Speaker Alban Bagbin for officially declaring four parliamentary seats vacant.

Speaking on the Floor of Parliament, he stated, "You have done what is right. It is in the national interest. Permit me to congratulate the NDC. This is the beginning of the process to reset Ghana. Beginning the next sitting, we will take over. The new Minority just walked out, but that does not stop us. Mr. Speaker, we thank you very much."

The affected MPs are Peter Yaw Kwakye Ackah, NDC MP for Amenfi Central; Andrew Amoakoh Asiamah, Independent MP for Fomena; Kojo Asante, NPP MP for Suhum, and Cynthia Morrison, NPP MP for Agona West.

In delivering his ruling, the Speaker stated that if Article 97(1)(g) of the 1992 Constitution was only to apply to a future parliament, then there would have been no need for it to exist since the MPs in question would have completed the term of the current parliament.

He also noted that the previous incident, where the former Speaker, Prof. Mike Oquaye, expelled the Fomena MP from the House after the NPP had informed him about his decision to go independent, was not binding on him or any other Speaker.

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