Akim Oda MP Challenges NDC On A Viral Video

The Member of Parliament for Akyem Oda, Hon. Alexander Akwasi Acquah, has challenged NDC MPs to explain to Ghanaians the content of a viral video that shows a group of people wielding and brandishing weapons in the House of the former President during a supposed clean-up exercise.

The MP demanded an explanation when he contributed to the budget debate on the floor of parliament on Monday.

Hon. Akwasi Acquah wondered why the people in the viral video who had gone to do a clean-up at the residence of former President John Mahama ended up brandishing weapons and threatening mayhem. He told Parliament that these are some of the things that deter tourists from Ghana. He said Ghana’s tourism sector has started showing some improvements after the COVID-19 restrictions, and that calls for circumspection and carefulness in what we show to the outside world.

This comment attracted a lot of heckling from the NDC, which didn’t see the need for such comments in a budget debate. In spite of attempts by the leadership of the NDC in parliament to stop Hon. Akwasi Acquah from debating on those lines, the MP kept on demanding an explanation and an apology for the content of the video, which he claimed was an affront to tourism in Ghana.

The Akyem Oda MP, who is also the Vice Chair of the Trade, Industry, and Tourism Committee in parliament, applauded the government for rehabilitating the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park and Mausoleum, which now attracts many tourists and earns a whopping one million Ghana cedis a month instead of a paltry three thousand one hundred Ghana cedis in its former state.

He called for more investments in such areas to shore up the revenue from the tourism sector.

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