Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah, Chairman of the committee investigating the vetting chaos
Member of Parliament for Ho West Constituency, Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah has defended his comments made in the 8th Parliament.
It emerged that the Chairman of the Committee investigating the chaos that erupted in Parliament, Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah lacks the moral right to chair such a committee.
This is because he has been captured on video threatening to beat colleague MPs in the 8th Parliament during the struggle between the NPP caucus and the NDC caucus over which side was the majority in Parliament.
In the video, Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah indicated that the speaker had declared the NDC side the majority, and therefore any other person from the NPP caucus who attempted to sit on the majority side would be beaten.
To many who have had access to the video, this member of parliament does not have the moral right to sit on a committee investigating chaos with this kind of mindset.
“It is not a small fight we will be engaged in today. That is what they want. We are already seated at the right side of the speaker and they are not in. So if you come and say I should move from your seat, what is it? I will beat you. Whoever dares today, we will beat the person.
Is the seat for the person? The Speaker has already declared. It won’t be violence; beating someone in the chamber isn’t violence. 7th January will happen again, you just watch,” he said
But commenting on that remark in an interview with the media on Friday, February , Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah indicated that he did not threaten anyone with his comments.
“I threatened to beat who? I quite remember in the 8th Parliament a journalist asked me why I was sitting on the right-hand side of the speaker, and I said I was sitting there because of the speaker’s directive.
And she said, What will you do next time? and I said when someone sits on my seat I will beat the person. Is that a threat? Did I say I was going to beat anybody, and have I beaten anybody? As compared to people breaking chairs and tables and removing cables from microphones? No, that is far-fetched,” he said.
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