Emotionally Charged Ursula Owusu-Ekuful Clashes With Murtala Mohammed

Tempers went high on the floor of parliament Wednesday afternoon as the House during debate of report of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs committee on the Proper Sexual Human and Ghanaian Family Values Bill,2021 when two MPs clashed.

A verbal clash ensued between Minister for Communications and Digitalisation and MP for Ablekuma West, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful and Member for Tamale Central, Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed causing a temporal hold on the debate.

It all begun when Second Deputy Speaker , Andrews Asiamah Amoako who was presiding over proceedings stopped Member for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwame Dafeamekpor who had just begun his contribution to the debate and invited the Tamale Central lawmaker to withdraw an un-parliamentary statement he had made off record ostensibly against, Hon Ursula Owusu-Ekuful.

Following the intervention of the minority leader, Dr Casiel Ato Forson, Mr Murtala was was initially hesitant but yielded to the Speaker’s directive even though he claimed his comments were not made into the microphone (off-record) hence did not know what exactly to withdraw.

The Speaker afterwards also invited the Communications minister to withdraw the un-parliamentary words she had also uttered against Mr Murtala off-records.

It was at this juncture that the emotionally charged minister bursts in-anger and stated that the Tamale Central MP referred to her as ”a practitioner of LGBTQI”.

”Mr speaker, I sat here and repeatedly head him referred to me as a practitioner of LGBT” she stated.

She went further to explain that, the description of her by her colleague as an LGBTQ+ practitioner, caused her to also describe him as mad.