General News of Friday, 9 June 2017

Source: rainbowradioonline.com

We will not be demoralised by Majority’s insults and attacks - Alban Bagbin

Alban Bagbin is deputy speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin is deputy speaker of Parliament

The Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has slammed the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its Majority in Parliament over what he refers to as demoralisation of the Minority.

According to him, the Majority are good at hurling insults at the Minority when they are unable to engage in intellectual discourse on the floor of Parliament.

The 1992 Constitution he said had its basis from the people, and Ghanaians ‘’will recall the insults that were heaped on us [NDC] because those who helped draft the constitution were described as hairdressers, farmers, butchers, this cereal nonsense; that was the position our colleagues had taken on the other side. Today they praise the Constitution.’’

The longest serving legislator stressed that, the lasting democratic experience in Ghana called the fourth republican constitution is a product of the June 4 revolution.

The NDC is the father of multi-party democracy in Ghana and nobody can take that away from us, he said.

He further chided the NPP describing them as a party that condones lawlessness and impunity. The NPP he noted does not uphold the constitution of the republic and that has deepened our woes.

‘’They [NPP] seem to disagree with some of the provisions of the constitution. So you see that what is going on in the country is lawlessness. They are not going by the provisions of the constitution, and when the Minority raises issues on the floor, they say we are ignorant. What we’ve been doing and they’ve come to continue, we are even ignorant of that. That is the posture of the weak, anytime the person cannot engage in any serious fight, they start with insults just to demoralise you. We will not be demoralised.’’ -