Reacting to the developments in Parliament while speaking on TV3 NewDay on Thursday, October 24, 2024, she questioned the behaviour of the NDC MPs, describing their actions as childish.
“Perhaps they just don’t want to do their job. Everything I have said is directed at the Minority side of Parliament. Why did the NPP MPs leave? They left because somebody chose to sit on their chairs. Where you sit matters. That is why we have the Majority and Minority sides. So, if you decide to act like a kindergarten child and move from your seat and go and take your brother’s seat and your brother decides that I won’t fight you, and as the Majority Leader said, he is not going to sit there and fight over chairs for his children to see him on TV fighting over chairs. The Majority side learnt a lesson from what happened on January 7, 2021, when the whole nation was embarrassed by the actions and they decided they were not going to mind them,” she stated.
Ellen Daaku expressed hope that the Speaker would recall Parliament shortly to address the vacant seat controversy to enable the MPs to resume their duties.
“There are legal processes. The letter the NPP MPs have sent to the Speaker, he has 7 days to consider it or not consider it. He should get it done and get the job done.
“The Speaker could not make a decision because the Supreme Court has stayed the decision. I think the NPP took a good decision to leave the house,” she added.
On October 18, the Supreme Court issued a stay of execution on Speaker Alban Bagbin’s ruling, which declared four parliamentary seats vacant.
Parliament was directed to recognise and allow the four MPs to fully represent their constituencies and carry out their official duties.
