You can’t use parliamentary rules to suppress oversight – Afenyo-Markin tells First Deputy Speaker

The Minority staged the protest on Wednesday, July 15, after the First Deputy Speaker disallowed a supplementary question Mr Afenyo-Markin sought to ask the Minister for Communications on the government's planned SIM card re-registration exercise.

Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has accused First Deputy Speaker Bernard Ahiafor of using parliamentary procedures to frustrate the Minority's constitutional oversight role, following a walkout by Minority MPs in Parliament.

Read also: Minority stages walkout accusing First Deputy Speaker of biasAddressing journalists after the walkout, Mr Afenyo-Markin alleged that the First Deputy Speaker had consistently used the Standing Orders to obstruct Minority MPs from scrutinising government actions.