NPP MP Struck By Stroke, Majority MPs Lose Numbers To Pass E-Levy

General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has revealed one of the 137 MPs on the majority NPP side in parliament is incapacitated.

In a chat with Nana Aba Anamoah on Star FM’s Star chat, he said the MP in question has suffered a stroke and is in the intensive care unit and therefore not in a position to vote in favor of the e-levy if a vote were held.

“They keep going around as if they have the numbers to pass the E-levy by themselves but they cannot. Now you have one of your MPs struck down by a stroke, he is in intensive care as we speak,” Asiedu Nketia said.

Mr. Asiedu Nketia’s revelation means that as things stand now, the NPP side in parliament has only 135 members given that another Majority MP, Sara Adwoa Sarfo, of Dome Kwabenya, has also abandoned Parliament for the US where she has been domiciled since the beginning of the year.

In this case, if elections were held, the NDC MPs who are 137 in number will outnumber the NPP MPs, even with the independent MP for Fomena, voting with the NPP. The Majority group would thus lose the e-levy election.

It is not clear who the MP struck with stroke is but Greater Accra Regional Minister, Henry Quartey, was recently reported to be seriously sick and has not been exactly active in the public domain.

Meanwhile, Bekwai MP and 1st Deputy Speaker, Joe Osei Wusu have been reported as saying that the Majority Group no longer factors Sara Adwoa Sarfo into consideration when the Majority is taking a decision.

Speaking on Kumasi-based Pure FM, Mr. Osei-Owusu said, “in our strategy, we have taken it as going to rescue a kidnapped person, you presume she is dead, but if you go and she is alive, then it is God’s grace, and it adds to your gains, so that is our approach.

“So as it stands now, we don’t count her as part of us,” he stated.