SONA: Our walkout was a bold protest against tyranny-Minority

The Minority in Parliament has explained that it walked out of parliament during the State of the Nation Address(SONA) to protest against tyranny and to send a very clear message directly to President Akufo-Addo they have had enough of his ‘authoritarian’ government.
According to the minority, what the Akufo Addo’s government has done since it came to power is to threaten the health of Ghana’s democracy, a situation they said is unacceptable to them as Ghanaians, hence their walk out.
“Since becoming President of our republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has conducted the affairs of state with the kind of tyranny, despotism and authoritarianism that frightens many objective observers,” the minority said.
The minority also added that,” We have in the face of extreme provocation exercised restraint and urged the president to depart from his perilous path that puts the democracy of our country at great risk. Sadly, matters are totally out of control. The democracy we all toiled and sacrificed to establish is now threatened by the highhandedness of President Akufo-Addo.”
In a press statement by the Minority after boycotting the SONA, it stated that,” As noted, these are not normal times. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Our tradition is credited for laying the foundations for this Fourth Republican dispensation. It is our moral duty to the Constitution we swore to protect and the people we serve in this House to rise and resist oppressor’s rule – in that enduring and rallying call of our national anthem.”
It also explained further that,”Our walkout was therefore a bold protest against tyranny and to send a very clear message directly to President Akufo-Addo that enough is enough. We shall no longer accept the growing levels of impunity and unconstitutionalism masked by duplicitous and hollow rhetoric.    Ghana belongs to all of us and so shall we all stand to defend the democracy we have all laboured for.”
 
 
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