{"id":5419,"date":"2025-02-10T19:14:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2025-02-10T19:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T19:14:37","slug":"afenyo-markin-sparks-controversy-in-parliament-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2025\/02\/10\/afenyo-markin-sparks-controversy-in-parliament-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Afenyo Markin Sparks Controversy in Parliament Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Afenyo Alexander Markin, the Minority Leader of Parliament, has been involved in another heated debate during a vetting appointment. Markin accused Jerry Ahmed of being irresponsible and not silent during his interaction with the parliament, even going as far as to describe him as &#8220;silly&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Chairperson of the Parliament&#8217;s Appointment Committee, Markin&#8217;s insulting statement caused a commotion in the parliament, as other members took offense to his words. The tension was so high that the Speaker of Parliament had to postpone the vetting process, rescheduling it for February 3, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that Markin has been in the news recently for his role in the vetting process, including his involvement in the questioning of Greater Accra Regional Minister-nominee Linda Akweley Ocloo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afenyo Markin Sparks Controversy in Parliament Again<\/p>\n<p>Afenyo Alexander Markin, the Minority Leader of Parliament, has been involved in another heated debate during a vetting appointment. Markin accused Jerry Ahmed of being irresponsible and not silent during his interaction with the parliament, even going as far as to describe him as &#8220;silly&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chairperson of the Parliament&#8217;s Appointment Committee, Markin&#8217;s insulting statement caused a commotion in the parliament, as other members took offense to his words. The tension was so high that the Speaker of Parliament had to postpone the vetting process, rescheduling it for February 3, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that Markin has been in the news recently for his role in the vetting process, including his involvement in the questioning of Greater Accra Regional Minister-nominee Linda Akweley Ocloo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5424,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}