The outgoing Majority Leader in Parliament and Member of Parliament for Effutu, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has criticized the National Democratic Congress (NDC) minority in Parliament, accusing them of not supporting the effective governance of the country.

According to him, the NDC minority’s approach made it difficult to achieve the needed progress because they were not on their own. He said anytime the NPP had to discuss issues with them, they would refer us to their political committee, which made governance difficult.

Speaking on JoyNews Super Morning Show on Wednesday, December 18, Afenyo-Markin said that the NDC minority often deferred important decisions to their central party committee rather than engaging in direct discussions with the New Patriotic Party (NPP) caucus.

 “I will say that the NDC minority did not help the governance of the country” he stated.

He gave examples to illustrate his point, including the One District, One Factory (1D1F) project and the vetting of judges to the Supreme Court.

He explained that although the NDC initially agreed to certain motions, they later backed out, citing decisions from their political committee.

“They came for vetting, after which they were supposed to table the motion. Suddenly, they said the political committee said no, and they should go by the majority decision,” he said.

 Mr Afenyo-Markin also recounted how the NDC initially supported selecting smaller companies for the 1D1F initiative, only to change their stance later.

Additionally, he noted that the NDC's political committee requested the removal of the raw materials component from the project, which resulted in the removal of about 400 million cedis from the proposed budget and a reduction in industry incentives.

“They now changed their proceedings again, saying the political committee says no to 1D1F, and their reason was that if the company gets their tax incentives, they were likely to help the NPP,” he added.