Disregard Amidu’s Claims Of Speaker Meeting President Secretly In Dubai- Speaker’s Office
The Communication unit of the Speaker of Parliament, has debunked claims made by Mr. Martin Amidu in his publications to the effect that the Rt. Hon. Speaker of Parliament Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin had secretly met with His Excellency the President in Dubai, United Arab Emirates saying, it is a palpable falsehood.
In a statement signed and issued by the Head of the-Speaker’s Communications Unit, Mr. Peter Bamford disclosed that the Office of the Speaker of Parliament has taken notice of a malicious and false publication in the media attributed to Mr. Martin Amidu and debunks it accordingly.
He said the falsehood is part of ongoing deliberate and calculated attempts by some persons to tarnish the reputation of the Speaker of Parliament, saying that such attempts have not succeeded in the past and the recent one by none other than Mr. Amidu would also not succeed.
“The said publication is false, baseless, and unfounded, and should be treated with the contempt it deserves”, the statement stressed.
The statement intimated the integrity of Rt. Hon Speaker Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin as a personality who has a long record of distinguished and honest public service to the Republic of Ghana and would continue at all times to put the interest of the Ghanaian people first.
“The Rt Hon Speaker will not be deterred from carrying out his public service duties, guiding and providing leadership for Parlament even in the face of insinuations, unprovoked attacks, and unfounded allegations like Mr. Amidu’s”, the statement said.
He pointed out that, Mr. Martin Amidu must appreciate that the decisions taken on the floor of parliament are an extension of the voices of the citizens by the legislators who represent them distinctively.
“The Speaker of Parliament, unlike the Deputy Speakers, has no vote in Parliament and therefore does not take part in the decisions of the House. This is clearly stated in the 1992 Constitution and affirmed by decisions of the Supreme Court of Ghana”.
“To re-state, it is false, malicious, and a fabrication by Mr. Martin Amidu that the Speaker of Parliament had secretly met with the president before the rejection of the 2021 Budget. The Speaker has not met the President in Dubai or anywhere else outside the Republic of Ghana”.
According to the statement, the Rt. Hon, the Speaker requests Mr. Amidu to do the honorable thing and withdraw his statements and apologize unreservedly to the Speaker of Parliament and indeed the Parliament of Ghana, with the same prominence as he made the false and malicious statements, within seven days from the date of the release of this rejoinder.
“The failure of Mr. Amidu to adhere to this request would leave the Rt. Hon. Speaker to no other option than to take all steps necessary within his rights to vindicate his name”.
