Edem Agbana, Deputy Youth Organiser of the opposition National Democratic Congress, has challenged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to reveal the member of his party who delivered an e-levy-designed cake to celebrate the Majority Leader’s birthday.
The celebration of Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu’s 65th birthday with a cake emblazoned with the inscriptions of the controversial e-levy has infuriated some.
The Majority Leader’s Office has now disputed that the e-levy cake was the official cake for the celebration.
Some NPP members have suggested that the cake was provided by the Minority to ridicule the Majority after the two caucuses fought in Parliament to approve the levy.
However, speaking to Media General’s Johnnie Hughes at the start of the Yentua rally on Thursday, February 10, Mr. Agbana claimed that cutting such a cake is the “height of insensitivity” and “gross disrespect” to the people of Ghana.
He claims that at a time when Ghanaians are struggling, a cake of this design is cut to spite them.
Mr. Agbana responded to rumors that the cake was offered by members of his party in Parliament by saying, “It is never true!”
“We have dared them that they should name the MP who presented the cake.”
He said assuming without admitting that the cake was indeed presented by the Minority in Parliament, “you have to accept it, cut it and celebrate?”
He indicated that that is a sign that the NPP government can just act blindly.
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SOURCE: 3NEWS
