A Political Risk Analyst, Dr Theo Acheampong, has remarked about the demeanour of the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, following his recent outburst.

According to him, Mr Bagbin appears to be irritated with the current tension between the Majority and Minority Caucuses in Parliament.

On Wednesday, the former Nadwoli North MP had threatened to get recalcitrant Members of Parliament arrested for disrupting proceedings.

“You make me sick!” he fumed. And responding to an MP who commented after, the Speaker quizzed, “will you shut up?.”

The outburst generated a lot of reactions, particularly on social media.

But speaking to Samson Lardy Anyenini on Newsfile Saturday, Dr Acheampong said the unexpected utterance of the Speaker is a sign of frustration and anger.

“It’s an interesting set of events, and I think what is quite clear is that you can see a lot of anger and, I dare say, even frustration by the Speaker in terms of the work that he is doing.

“You can see a bit of frustration from his commentary from some of the tapes that you played before this discussion,” he said on Saturday.

Dr Acheampong further complained about the lack of cohesion amongst the opposing sides.

According to the Political Risk Analyst, although Parliament is a hung one, both Majority and Minority Caucuses are only prioritising the interest of their political parties instead of that of the country and the populace.

“What Ghanaians voted for in December 2020 was that we wanted both parties to work a bit more closely together in the interest of the country.

“Now what has rather happened is that there is a deeply entrenched political or partisan interest and those interests seem to be overriding the need for the two parties; NPP [New Patriotic Party] and NDC [National Democratic Congress] to come and work and deliberate in the broader interest of the country,” he told Samson Lardy Anyenini.

Since the inception of the Eighth Parliament of the Fourth Republic, the country’s legislature has recorded many chaotic incidents that led to fisticuffs in some cases.

But the tensions have not been limited to the Parliamentarians. The leadership of the House is also dealing with its rifts.

Addressing the House on Wednesday, Speaker Bagbin expressed dissatisfaction with First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu, for dismissing a motion to constitute a bipartisan Committee to probe into government’s Covid-19 expenditure.

He described the First Deputy Speaker’s penchant to overturn his rulings as illegal and offensive.

Mr Osei-Owusu, however, took a strong exception to the stance of the Speaker.

He believes that his superior, Speaker Bagbin, should tolerate other views.

"Mr Speaker should have the courage to accept that others may hold a different view from his own even if they are subordinate to him,” he said in a statement.