Minority Leader: I am not mandated to escort President:

Minority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu says there is no standing order that stipulates that the Minority leader should appear before any committee for refusing to escort the President.
The Minority leader was responding to the call by deputy Minister of Information Samuel Okujeto Ablakwa suggesting that he should be immediately be summoned to the Privileges committee to answer for his refusal to be part of the procession team to escort the president after he addressed the nation in Parliament yesterday.
Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa says it is the first time in history that the Minority leader has refused to comply with Standing orders in parliament.
He stressed even though the Minority disagrees with the President they should not have behaved as they did yesterday.
Mr. Ablakwa said Osei Kyei Mensah decision to refuse to escort the president was an insult to the President and the People of Ghana.
‘This is what the democracy is all about, we should agree to disagree but if the Minority leader refused to comply with standing order in Parliament then he is not worth his position’ he added.
However, Mr. Kyei Mensah Bonsu tells Adom News in an interview that the Vice President then Member of Parliament for Bole, refused to recognise President Kufour when he addressed the state of the nation in the year 2000.
He challenged the Deputy Minister of Information to go back and study the standing orders in Parliament but not to expose his ignorance.
Story: Samuel Mantey