{"id":3300,"date":"2024-02-23T16:42:19","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2024-02-23T16:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:47:37","slug":"support-afenyo-markin-kyei-mensah-bonsu-tells-npp-mps-as-he-introduces-new-majority-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=3300","title":{"rendered":"Support Afenyo-Markin \u2013 Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Tells NPP Mps As He Introduces New Majority Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The outgoing Majority Leader in Parliament Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has told all the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmakers and the entire Parliament to support his successor Alexander Afenyo-Markin to deliver.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was after he officially briefed the House and Speaker Alban Bagbin on the changes made to the leadership of the Majority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI introduce to you Afenyo-Markin who takes over from me as Majority Leader,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To the lawmaker, especially the Majority, he said \u201cSupport my successor to prosecute the remaining agenda of the government.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Kyei-Mensah Bonsu further said on the floor of the House that his resignation as Majority Leader was voluntary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-672e268b130c162bad3cf9912c594b18 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i-WzKpUc3-Q?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He thanked the Speaker Alban Bagbin for the cooperation that has existed between them over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you for the cooperation and collaboration that existed between you and I over the entire period that our paths crossed,\u201d he said among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has been kept as the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs despite his resignation as Majority Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This was after the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) confirmed the MP for Efutu, Alexander Afenyo-Markin as his replacement as Majority Leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Suame lawmaker resigned on February 21 during a meeting between the Majority Caucus and President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NPP NEC held an emergency meeting in Accra on Friday February 23 to announce the changes made to the leadership of the Majority. At that meeting, the NEC decided to keep Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu as Minister for Parliamentary Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other members of the newly constituted Majority Caucus are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" start=\"1\">\n<li>Patricia Appiagyei (MP for Asokwa)&nbsp; \u2013 Deputy Majority Leader<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frank Annor Dompreh (MP for Nsawam-Adoagyiri) \u2013 Majority Whip<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Habib Iddrisu (MP for Tolon)- 1st Dep. Majority Whip<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alex Tetteh Djonobuah (MP for Sefwi Akontombra) \u2013 2nd Dep. Majority Whip<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outgoing Majority Leader in Parliament Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has told all the New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmakers and the entire Parliament to support his successor Alexander Afenyo-Markin to deliver. This was after he officially briefed the House and Speaker Alban Bagbin on the changes made to the leadership of the Majority. \u201cI introduce to you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[1077,967],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-kyei-mensah-bonsu","tag-majority-leader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3302,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}