A photo collage of Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka (L) and Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin (R)
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Asawase, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, has threatened that the Majority Caucus will vote to take away all the privileges of the Minority Leader if he defies the resolution passed by the House on Ghana’s delegation to the ECOWAS Parliament.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament on July 22, 2025, when the resolution was passed, Mohammed-Mubarak, who is also the Minister of the Interior, indicated that the Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, has no option but to accept the decision of the House.
He said that he was surprised that Afenyo-Markin would be the person challenging the decision of the House because he was at the receiving end when a member of his caucus defied the resolution of the House on the delegation to the ECOWAS Parliament.
“We are capitalising on our knowledge of the ECOWAS and Pan-African Parliaments to make it difficult for this House. Because in the case of the ECOWAS Parliament, if a member is elected, even if his Parliament doesn’t send him and he still insists he wants to be a member, the ECOWAS Parliament will support him.
“We have a clear example when a former whip in this House, from our colleagues on the other side, decided to defy leadership. When he went there, interestingly, the Minority Leader, who is taking an interim position, was the one who was disadvantaged. So, I thought that if for nothing, he should learn from that. He should learn from that history that being and taking an interim position will come and haunt you one day,” he said.
“This House, if it becomes necessary, we may have to vote and support you. If the Minority Leader insists, he wants to go to ECOWAS, he must be stripped of all the other privileges of the Minority Leader. We are talking about IPU. We are talking about CPA,” he added.
The minister said that Afenyo-Markin’s privileges must be taken away because he cannot be enjoying them and still represent the country at the ECOWAS Parliament.
The Majority Leader, Mahama Ayariga, while moving the motion on the composition of membership for representation at the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), proposed some amendments, including the replacement of Minority Leader Afenyo-Markin with his deputy, Patricia Appiagyei.
Despite opposition from members of the Minority Caucus, the House, by a voice vote, adopted the amended list, made up of George Ricketts-Hagan as Leader, Emmanuel Kwame Bedzrah, Laadi Ayii Ayamba, Eric Afful, Dominic Napare, Patricia Appiagyei, and Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi as members, with Millicent Yeboah Amankwah as observer.
Watch a video of Muntaka’s remarks below:
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