Mr. Alexander Afenyo-Markin” in addressing the house after the swearing in of the two new members of the house started with a quote “Is this the reset we were promised, or the beginning of a regression into intolerance”.
Mr. Afenyo-Markin, the Minority Leader, who used it to criticize the current administration for what he sees as acts of political intolerance and political excesses cited examples like the arrest of a regional chairman and the removal of a Chief Justice to illustrate his concerns about political excesses threatening the democratic progress.
Afenyo-Markin used the phrase to question the government’s actions and framed the current situation as a possible shift from a promised “reset” to a “regression into intolerance,” particularly regarding issues of justice and human rights.
He pointed to the arrest of Kwame Baffoe, the Bono NPP Regional Chairman, and the removal of Gertrude Torkornoo as Chief Justice as evidence of political overreach and a decline in democratic standards.
In concluding his address, Afenyo-Markin called on the government to take responsibility for ensuring fairness and avoiding political excesses, stating that those developments are a “blot on democracy”.
