Jamaludeen Abdullah, an aide to the Minister of Youth and Sports, Mustapha Ussif, as well as the Majority Chief Whip in Parliament, Frank Annor Dompreh, have claimed that the minister indeed suffered cuts from a sharp object during the clash between Majority and Minority sides of Parliament on Monday, December 20, 2021.
Jamaludeen, has told various media houses that Mustapha Ussif, sustained a cut from a sharp object close to the eyes, but is recovering from the incident, and stated that the MP for Yagaba-Kubori is hale and hearty and discharging his duties as both MP and Minister.
The extent of Mustapha Ussif’s injuries, as well as his medical records and the health facility are yet to be made public, however, his colleague the Nsawam-Adoagyiri MP, has indicated that a probe will be initiated to fish out the perpetrator.
Ghanaian politicians, have a history of reporting assault and injury which turns out to be untrue but Frank Annor Dompreh, has insisted he saw Mustapha Ussif’s injury, bleeding and was there when he was taken to a hospital even though The Herald is aware Parliament has a state of the art clinic attended by many MPs, Speakers and ex-Speakers.
“What are we doing to ourselves? How can you cut the face of your colleague MP? The cameras and footages are there and we will all get to know who did that. If we [Majority] are lying too we will find out, we will find out,” Frank Annor Dompreh disclosed on Accra-based Neat FM.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, was involved in a brawl in parliament over the controversial E-levy on Monday and was seen on television receiving a hefty slap from a colleague MP on the side of the NDC.
Although, his shirt was seen visibly shredded while in the process of shoving some of his colleagues from the Speaker’s sitting area, he was never seen bleeding from an injury.
But his aide, Jamaludeen insists “It is true that hon. Mustapha Ussif suffered some cuts around his eye but I can tell you that he is very fine. There is a cut around his eye but he is doing very fine.”
Yesterday, the house decided to suspend sitting sine die. It is expected that the house will reconvene in January 2022.
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