During the vetting of the appointed Minister of Defence, Edward Boamah, on January 28, 2025, Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin made it clear that he wouldn’t tolerate interruptions. This stern warning came after Afenyo-Markin raised concerns about a statement made regarding the Ghana International School (GIS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The issue at hand involved an incident where individuals attempted to take over the school’s land, which was promptly stopped by the school authorities. Afenyo-Markin clarified that he wasn’t trying to cause problems or argue with Boamah’s statement, but rather, he was dissatisfied with the Minister’s explanation regarding the GIS land issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The tension escalated when Boamah interrupted Afenyo-Markin, questioning why he was bringing up already settled issues. Afenyo-Markin took exception to the interruption, cautioning Boamah against denying him “protocol allocation” due to the intensity of the questioning. The Minority Leader’s warning was clear: he wouldn’t be interrupted again in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Afenyo-Markin Warns Defence Minister Against Interruptions<\/p>\n
During the vetting of the appointed Minister of Defence, Edward Boamah, on January 28, 2025, Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin made it clear that he wouldn’t tolerate interruptions. This stern warning came after Afenyo-Markin raised concerns about a statement made regarding the Ghana International School (GIS).<\/p>\n
The issue at hand involved an incident where individuals attempted to take over the school’s land, which was promptly stopped by the school authorities. Afenyo-Markin clarified that he wasn’t trying to cause problems or argue with Boamah’s statement, but rather, he was dissatisfied with the Minister’s explanation regarding the GIS land issue.<\/p>\n
The tension escalated when Boamah interrupted Afenyo-Markin, questioning why he was bringing up already settled issues. Afenyo-Markin took exception to the interruption, cautioning Boamah against denying him “protocol allocation” due to the intensity of the questioning. The Minority Leader’s warning was clear: he wouldn’t be interrupted again in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5546","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\/5546","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=5546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5549,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5546\/revisions\/5549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}