Akosua Manu petitions Speaker over MP’s ‘marriage’ remarks to schoolgirl

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Former New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary candidate for the Adentan Constituency, Akosua Manu, has petitioned Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, to initiate disciplinary action against Ahafo Ano South East legislator, Mohammed Yakubu, over remarks he allegedly made to a nine-year-old girl during a to Parliament.

The petition contends that the MP’s conduct breached Standing Orders 30(c), 31(1) and 31(o) of Parliament and was inconsistent with the spirit of the Children’s Act, 1998 (Act 560), as amended, the Constitution, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child.