A group of spare parts dealers in Suame Magazine, are baring their teeth at Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed, MP for Tamale Central for disrespecting them.
According to traders, the NDC MP for Tamale Central, Murtala Mohammed, insulted them by creating the impression that they’re useless and cannot rise to the top in Ghana.
“The MP has insulted us. Is he saying that we are not good enough or what? Does he know the number of lawyers who have investments in spare parts? Does he know the number of lawyers who were sponsored by spare parts dealers? Or he believes we are not rich because we sell these items?”, Kwabena Nsiah, a spare parts dealer at Suame quizzed.
Osei Opoku, a dealer in used car engines also had this to say: “If this had been said about Murtala, he would have said that Kyei Mensah has insulted Northerners. He is not fit to be an MP”.
Speaking to JoyNews on Wednesday after Parliament’s sitting, the Tamale Central MP, took the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, to the cleaners, saying ‘Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu was selling spare parts at the time Alban Bagbin was practicing law’.
The lawmaker said this after the Majority Leader had disagreed with the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, on the ruling on the outcomes of the Privileges Committee report on absentee MPs, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Henry Quartey and Sara Adwoa Safo, that it should come to the plenary.
The Majority Leader, disagreeing with the Speaker stated that he was not only wrong but contradictory as well.
According to Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, the practice is that such outcomes are acted upon and not brought to the plenary as the Speaker was seeking to do.
He also pointed out to the Speaker that before Parliament went on a break, he made a statement that supported the longstanding practice in the House and that he had contradicted himself with his current position.
Murtala Mohammed, in his interview with JoyNews, said that the Majority Leader had no knowledge about the law to disagree with the Speaker, saying as at the time Bagbin was practicing law, the Suame MP was selling spare parts.
“The Tamale MP must apologize to us. Some of us are far richer and educated than him. We employ lawyers, we pay for school fees of student lawyers, etc. so for him to denigrate us this way is ridiculous. He must apologize”, Yaw Bonsu, a spare parts dealer at Suame emphasize