The Executive Assistant and Head of social media at the Presidency, Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe, says the Speaker of Parliament and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary Caucus are not to be blamed for the rejection of the budget.
According to him, the best people to be blamed are within the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He said the NPP regional chairmen, constituency chairmen, and some ministers who rejected the 2022 budget statement are rather to blamed.
He claimed that a couple of national executives, regional executives, and even constituency executives contributed to the defeat of some members of Parliaments by campaigning against them simply because their favorites were lost in the primaries.
"Blame those regional and national executives who overtly and covertly disqualified some parliamentary candidates because they want their preferred aspirants to go unopposed," he said.
He expressed dissatisfaction with how some party members take pleasure in pulling other party members down.
"The brother against brother and pull him down in this government and party is simply unbelievable. The result is the sorry state of the number of parliamentarians we have in parliament of Ghana today," he said.
Background
Members of Parliament on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) numbering 137, have angrily walked out of Parliament on Friday over the presence of the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, popularly known as "General Mosquito."
Johnson Asiedu Nketia who was on the public gallery was asked by the majority caucus to leave but the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, failed to order his expulsion.
The majority's call for Johnson Asiedu to be walked out came after the Speaker ordered the Marshals to walk all non-MPs who did not have voting right out of the chamber.
The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori Attah, whose request to engage the leadership of Parliament before the approval of the budget was turned down, politely went out following the Speaker's order.
The Majority of MPs also demanded that the General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress, who was sitting in the public gallery be walked out.
The 137 MPs forming the majority caucus vacated the floor of Parliament after the Speaker refused to walk out "Mosquito."
With half of the total number of MPs in the house at the moment, the budget was disapproved.
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