Cocaine probe: Speaker got it wrong by blocking parliamentary inquiry – Minority Leader

Minority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has rejected Speaker Alban Bagbin’s decision to dismiss the Minority’s motion seeking a parliamentary inquiry into recent major narcotics seizures linked to Ghana.

Mr Afenyo-Markin said the Speaker erred by relying on ongoing criminal proceedings to determine the scope of Parliament’s proposed inquiry.

Read also: Bagbin dismisses Minority motion on narcotics seizures as inadmissible Speaker Bagbin, however, ruled during Tuesday’s emergency sitting that the motion was inadmissible because the proposed inquiry substantially overlapped with matters currently before the courts and could prejudice pending judicial proceedings.