Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the Minority Leader of Parliament has reacted to Muntaka Mubarak, the member of Parliament for Asawase Constituency and Minister of Interior describing him as a spoilt child.
According to Afenyo Markin, he did not expect Muntaka to attack him.
Muntaka Mubarak noted that Afenyo Markin keeps disregarding the rules of the parliament when he speaks without following the laid-down processes.
According to him, Afenyo Markin in parliament behaves like a spoilt child who has lost his food.
Speaking on the floor of parliament Mubarak- Muntaka, on June 3, 2025, stated, “Mr Speaker, this is where my worry is. After you have referred this to the committee, reading Standing Order 160, it does not give any other member the opportunity to just get up and speak about what has been referred.
You can only go to the committee and make your argument there. When the report comes, that is when you debate it,” Muntaka stated on the floor.
He continued, “But Mr Speaker, the way the Minority Leader is behaving, he is simply turning the rules of the House upside down. He gets up and speaks anyhow he wishes. With the greatest respect, we need to bring the Minority Leader to order, for him to understand that this House is governed by rules.”
“He cannot be speaking out of turn. He is behaving like a spoilt child who has lost his food and is therefore behaving anyhow. Mr. Speaker, let us get him to act in order.”
Reacting to Muntaka’s comments, an infuriated launched a blistering accusing the interior minister of needlessly attacking him.
Afenyo on the floor of parliament stated, “For the Honourable Muntaka Mubarak, whom I so much respect, to be on his feet to use certain words the way he did… Mr Speaker, he has been in leadership before. I will not want any of my colleagues here to be disrespectful to you, never. We are here to debate.
All I was saying was that the matter did not come up at the pre-sitting. The Majority Leader whispered to me that the finance minister would bring up something. The energy minister had whispered to me that we would engage”.
He added, “All I was trying to draw the attention of the House to was that we were not pre-informed. For you to get up and to attack my person, that anytime I get up, I don’t just get up to speak, I get recognition…”.
“And if you, whom I so much respect, are the interior minister today and you want to hijack the leadership and then attack me?… I expect you not to be the one to be attacking me. I expect you not to be the one to use certain words, but I am not worried”.
Afenyo Markin emphasised, “As Minority Leader, I expect more of such attacks, and more will come. It is a price I will pay for being Minority Leader. If the intolerance level has said that I will be attacked by no less a person than the interior minister, whom I so much respect… Mr Speaker, I leave him and all his ways to posterity.”
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