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Fierce debate in parliament over political hooliganism
Mr Fuseini used his speech to denounce the seizure and locking up of the offices of the National Health Insurance Authority, Savannah Accelerated Development Authority and the Youth Employment Authority in the Sagnarigu district and the Tamale Metropolis.
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According to him, the “unruly marauding mob” assaulted and wounded the workers and clients, adding that the attacks were “unacceptable.”
But the NPP MP for Nhyiaeso Kennedy Kamkam replied him, saying he was shocked at the hypocrisy “being displayed by certain persons” about the locking up of offices of state institutions by suspected party activists."
According to him, instead of condemning the act and the perpetrators, some persons have “resorted to the use of uncouth, uncivilised, belligerent language and are striving to rather rope in the president of the republic.
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The NDC MP for Builsa North and a former Deputy Interior Minister, James Agalga, criticised the manhandling of a police officer by the so-called invisible forces at the Flagstaff House in the “full glare of military officers.”
This drew a furious response from the Defence Minister and NPP MP Bimbilla, Dominic Nitiwul, who upheld the integrity of the military.
“When you say thugs attacked an officer in the full glare of army personnel and they did nothing, [that] is a very serious and dangerous statement,” he said.
He added: “If not for the professionalism of the Ghana Armed Forces and the Police Service, a similar thing would have happened in Agbogbloshie because when the NDC won power in 2008 and took over power in 2009, innocent people were murdered.
The Minority Chief Whip Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak, on his part, admitted that the act of hooliganism witnessed anytime there is a change of government cut across both sides of the political divide.
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But he warned that “we must not programme ourselves to say that ‘oh, this year’s is an improvement.’”
The Majority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu in his remarks said “we are one people with a common destiny. That it was not condemned yesterday doesn't mean it should not be condemned today.”
“What touches us today which has occasioned loud voices being raised should signal to us that when voices were suppressed indefinitely, those people who were affected could not have taken it kindly.
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