Exposed! Parliamentary Clerk Cooks Attendance Sheet to Manipulate Passage of E-Levy

General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has revealed that the Clerk of Parliament, Cyril Kwabena Nsiah had deliberately marked eight NDC MPs who were present in Parliament as absent during the controversial one-sided vote to approve the e-levy on Tuesday.

“How come these people [the eight MP’s] will all of a sudden be marked absent when they actually were there and everybody saw them? They signed the attendance sheet and I have spoken to them. They signed the attendance sheet so it tells you that somebody somewhere is tampering with evidence,” he said.

According to Mr. Asiedu Nketia, the Clerk has been compromised by the Majority in a bid to use shenanigans to undermine the Minority’s case against the e-levy.

On Tuesday, the Minority in protest walked out of parliament leaving 136 NPP MPs and one independent MP to vote on the e-levy.

The Minority has since gone to court on grounds that the supposed passage of the e-levy was a nullity because there were only 137 MPs in the Chamber of Parliament when the number needed to form a quorum is 138.

By deliberately marking eight NDC MPs as absent, the Clerk has secretly provided grounds for the NPP to go to court and say that the NDC MPs had walked out because they did not have the numbers when the e-levy vote was considered under a certificate of urgency.

“It gives me the impression that the Majority side knew they have done something wrong and the approval of E-levy was not actually backed by the rules, and they know the Minority have resorted to court action and so they now come round to fake the evidence that will be called for during the hearing, and that is what gives me the suspicion that this thing is a deliberate orchestration to take decisions on behalf of Ghanaians when their representatives have actually not taken those decisions legitimately,” Asiedu Nketia noted.

He also backed the Minority’s decision to stage the walkout during the vote.