The allegations that Mohammed Hardi Tuferu, Nanton MP, was absent from the chamber during the passage of the three new tax bills have been refuted by the Majority Caucus.
Habib Iddrisu, the Second Majority Chief Whip, asserts that the allegations are false.
Even though his colleague was engaged in a nearly fatal accident, the Tolon MP said that he was hurried to Parliament to ensure that his vote would not be lost.
He said the Nanton MP had minor bruises from the accident and was attended by the nurses and doctors at a washroom in Parliament.
“The time we were taking the voice vote, he had come to Parliament and I put him in the washroom, we didn’t put him in the Chamber, we put him in the washroom and brought the nurses from Parliament and a doctor to attend to him. The Majority Leader came, and the nurses from Parliament came to attend to him in the washroom”.
“He had minor bruises on his face, so they cleaned it up and even stitched it up. So he was stitched in Parliament in the washroom,” Mr Habib revealed this in an interview with Citi FM on Monday, April 3.
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Alban Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament, has already stated that nothing improper took place during the passage of the new tax laws.
The Speaker claims that by including Mr. Tuferu in the headcounts that were conducted on the floor of parliament, he did nothing improper.“Members who are incapacitated shall upon reporting their incapacity to the Speaker through the Clerk shall be recorded. We have some of our members that are incapacitated and what I did was to ask the Whips to go and physically see them to assess their incapacitation and whether they are of sound mind.”
MP for Nanton, Mohammed Hardi Tuferu was involved in an accident on his way to take part in a vote on the new tax bills laid before Parliament on Friday, March 31.
He is said to have suffered a deep cut on his forehead but was still taken to Parliament to vote before he was taken to hospital for further treatment.
SOURCE: MYJOYONLINE
