The Majority in Ghana’s Parliament has refuted claims by the Minority that the Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Ebenezer Kojo Kum, was absent in Parliament on Tuesday, March 29 when the E-Levy was passed.
As indicated by Alexander Afenyo-Markin, the records in Parliament showed the incapacitated minister and MP as present and that he additionally voted in favor of the E-Levy.
Afenyo-Markin added, “pay attention to the decision by Mr. Speaker, we are becoming a piece befuddled concerning this actual presence and you have come to Parliament, you are at the committee, you are doing this, you are doing that, I would rather not get into that discussion yet.
“Yet, I can perceive you that depending on the vote which we got today, his name didn’t enlist as missing. The records are clear.
“I have not known about how he came, I have not been informed the way in which he came, I would rather not answer individuals’ cases of how he came. However how he came is irrelevant to me,” the Effutu Member of Parliament said in an interview on TV3.
The Minority in Parliament had shown that the Majority didn’t have the required number of MPs in Parliament when the controversial E-Levy was endorsed.
They have in this connection filed a suit at the Supreme Court testing the endorsement of the E-Levy.