The Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, stormed out of the vetting of the Minister of Interior-designate, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, on Friday, January 24, 2025.
The Majority Chief Whip, who is also the Member of Parliament of the South Dayi Constituency in the Volta Region, was infuriated by a claim by the Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, that all National Democratic Congress (NDC) Members of Parliament were given protocol police recruitment allocations.
Dafeamekpor wanted to address the claim made by Afenyo-Markin, but the Chairman of the Appointments Committee, Bernard Ahiafor, refused to give him the floor to do so. However, the South Dayi legislator insisted the issue must be addressed.
Ahiafor reprimanded Dafeamekpor, saying, “I do not intend to engage in this with you. Honourable Rockson Dafeamekpor, I least expected you to do this. You do not have the floor, wait for me to give you the floor.”
The chairman of the committee then tried to give the floor to another member, but Dafeamekpor insisted Afenyo-Markin’s claim must be addressed.
“Chairman, with all due respect, the ranking member has just said that between 2017 and 2024 every NDC member got protocol, I never got. Please, he said every NDC Member of Parliament. So please, I never got any protocol,” the South Dayi MP said.
After his comment, he got up and walked out of the vetting room.
As Dafeamekpor was walking away, Ahiafor explained that Afenyo-Markin never said all NDC MPs got protocol police recruitment.
“I’ve been a Member of Parliament for a long time and I know our constituents will come to us with enlistment forms and we beg on behalf of our constituents to be enlisted.
“When you go to bed and you happen to get it, fine. If you don’t happen to get it, fine. But there is no situation where automatically as a Member of Parliament, you are entitled to bring this number of people to be enlisted into the service,” he stated.
Watch his remarks in the video below:
“I least expected you to do this” – Bernard Ahiafor, chairman of the vetting committee to Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwami Dafeamekpor#ghanaweb#ghanawebtv pic.twitter.com/wVcJc4uZxk
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