Member of Parliament and Independent Parliamentary candidate at Agona West Constituency, Cynthia Mamle Morrison has expressed her need for the police to as early as at this time twenty eighth October, 2024 end their investigation into an alleged assassination try on her over the weekend.
“I want it as early as today if it is possible” she responded when the host of 3FM Sunrise Morning Show, Johnnie Hughes requested her how swiftly she desires the police to unravel the thriller behind an alleged assassination try on her.
According to the report by 3FM’s Central Region correspondent, Thomas Cann, some confusion ensued between the supporters of Cynthia Morrison and the New Patriotic Party’s candidate for the Agona West Constituency, Chris Arthur, on Sunday night which led to at least one particular person sustaining a gunshot harm.
There has been rising pressure between the 2 candidates and their supporters because the incumbent MP, Cynthia Morrison determined to go impartial after dropping the get together’s main. Not solely has her determination created a state of affairs on the Constituency however has additionally generated one other controversy in Parliament.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin on 17 October, 2024 declared 4 parliamentary seats vacant as a result of the present occupants had defected from the political events on whose ticket they entered the Parliament to contest on totally different tickets.
The affected MPs embody; Agona West Member of Parliament (MP), Cynthia Morrison of the New Patriotic Party (NPP); Amenfi Central MP, Peter Yaw Kwakye-Ackah of the National Democratic Congress (NDC); Suhum MP, Kwadwo Asante of the NPP, and Fomena MP, Andrew Asiamah Amoako, an impartial MP.
This ruling by the Speaker mechanically remodeled the National Democratic Congress (NDC) from a Minority to Majority group as a result of 2 of the mentioned seats belonged to the NPP, 1 for NDC and 1 impartial. Both NPP and NDC had 137 seats every out of the 275 seats, however NPP assumed the Majority group as a result of the Independent MP determined to do enterprise with them which gave the NPP a plus one over the NDC.
However, in lower than 24 hours later, a Supreme Court ruling on the 18th October, 2024 overturned the Speaker’s determination, thereby heightening the stress amongst the 2 sides which finally led to an indefinite adjournment of Parliament by the Speaker on Tuesday 22 October, 2024.
The NPP Constituency chairman at Agona West, Gibril Tanko has additionally accused the Cynthia Morrison camp of an alleged assassination try on Christ Arthur, the NPP Parliamentary candidate.
The police have assured the general public that the matter is underneath investigation however have remained tight-lipped on any findings.
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By Samuel Afriyie Owusu
