Alhassan Suhuyini, a member of parliament representing Tamale North, claims that the Minority Caucus' motion of censure against the Finance Minister was prompted by the demand for Mr. Ken Ofori-departure Atta's made by 98 NPP lawmakers.
He claimed that despite having the plan in place, they chose to carry it out following the news conference given by the renegade NPP MPs.
This was stated by Mr. Suhuyini on Newsfile on Saturday.
He pointed out that the Minority Caucus acted after the NPP MPs made their demand public since they lacked the 183 MPs necessary to succeed under the constitution to file the resolution.
The moment at which this motion was filed was crucial. Long before it was ever submitted, this censure motion was taken into consideration. The constitutional restriction was a topic that was frequently addressed in our caucus, and we concluded that there was no purpose in us starting anything on our own that we lacked the entire authority to carry out.
Our decision to bring this resolution was eventually solidified, he continued, "when we observed that our colleagues on the majority side publicly expressed their worry over the handling of the economy by Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta which was in harmony with what we had been talking all this time as a Minority."
He claimed that since the Minority members were hopeful of receiving support from the Majority members, the call by the rebel NPP MPs gave an ideal opportunity for them to move the resolution.
However, the NPP MPs, including those who want Mr. Ofori-Atta ousted, left the House when the vote was called on Thursday, preventing the Minority members from winning.
Even though all 136 Minority MPs secretly voted in favour of the Minister's dismissal, they fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to enact Article 82.
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, the majority leader, declared before leaving, "Like Pontius Pilate, we will wash our hands off this."
Alhassan Suhuyini, however, thinks that the Minority might have prevailed if the Majority hadn't walked out.
"I am positive that [we would have succeeded if the strike hadn't occurred]." I spoke with a few Majority members after the Speaker adjourned the meeting, and I learned that the Majority Whip was having trouble persuading some of his colleagues to leave with them, he said.
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Alhassan Suhuyini, a member of parliament representing Tamale North, claims that the Minority Caucus' motion of censure against the Finance Minister was prompted by the demand for Mr. Ken Ofori-departure Atta's made by 98 NPP lawmakers.
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