MPs snub Kintampo victims; hold a minute silence for New Zealand shooting
Parliament
observed a minute silence for victims of the tragic shooting in New
Zealand but there was no tribute on Ghanaian tragedy that left 62
passengers dead.
The
MPs also paid tributes to victims of a natural disaster in Southern
Africa in which a cyclone left in its wake over 750 deaths and
displaced in devastated infrastructure.
That tragedy occurred March 14, 2019 more than a week ago.
The New Zealand tragedy occurred March 15, 2019, some ten days ago.
The
road carnage on the Kintampo-Techiman road in the Bono East region
happened last Friday. Another accident the same day on the Cape Coast
road increased the death toll of the two accidents to more than 60.
On the floor of Parliament Monday, New Patriotic Party MP for Offinso South Constituency, Ben Abdallah Banda, read a statement commiserating with the government of New Zealand.
The NPP MP said the murder of Muslims inside the Al Noor Mosque at Christchurch,
New Zealand “sought to callously bereave 50 families and send about 15
countries whose nationals were victims, crying and wailing.
”Mr.
Speaker, the Parliament of Ghana is united in grief with New
Zealanders”, he said in a four-page statement that expressed fears
“global peaces appears to be on the brink of collapse”.
He
decried what he said was growing radicalisation, terrorism, extremism
and xenophobia, traits associated with the suspect, Brenton Harrison
Tarrant.
NDC North Tongu MP Okudzeto Ablakwa read a statement on the Southern African tragedy that has left at least 259 people in Zimbabwe, 56 in Malawi, and at least 417 in Mozambique dead.
Source: Ghana|myjoyonline
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