The Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has accepted responsibility for the chaos that erupted during parliamentary proceedings on Thursday, January 30, 2025.
During his appearance before the ad hoc committee probing the chaos on Monday, February 10, 2025, Mr. Dafeamekpor expressed regret over the incident, acknowledging the damage it had caused to Parliament’s image.
As one of the four MPs suspended over the incident, Dafeamekpor said he accepted his punishment in good faith, admitting that he was not proud of his actions.
“Well not at all, I take responsibility, so when my punishment came, I took it in good faith.
“Others disagreed that if punishment were to be meted out, it ought not to be me. But I might agree in principle that you need to punish the leaders for what happened. Consensus building failed for that night [January 30].
He attributed the chaos to Minority Chief Whip Frank Annoh-Dompreh, accusing him of insisting on his own modus operandi.
“If my counterpart [Minority Chief Whip Frank Annoh-Dompreh] was not minded on his insistent on his modus operandi, we wouldn’t have experienced that, but he insisted. Once they decided to destroy tables, raise tables what could I have done just to suffer for the punishment?”
“A lot of things need to be streamlined,” he remarked, emphasizing that a lack of consensus was the root cause of the chaos on January 30.
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