The Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has urged the Member of Parliament for Fanteakwa South, Duke Kwame Amoako-Atta Ofori-Atta, to encourage his elder brother Ken Ofori-Atta to return to the country and account for his stewardship as Finance Minister.
It follows a concern raised by the Minority Leader that the family of Mr. Ofori-Atta is troubled by the display of placards bearing photos of the former Finance Minister in the Chamber of Parliament during the State of the Nation Address by President Mahama on Friday, February 27, 2026.
Afenyo-Markin also indicated that the Council of Elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has also expressed deep reservations about the conduct of some Majority MPs who labelled Ken Ofori-Atta in a bad light.
But in a response, the Majority Chief Whip said there is no deliberate ploy to tarnish the reputation of the Ofori-Atta family, except the public demand for accountability.
“I am pained that this matter is having some adverse impact on Duke [Ofori-Atta, MP for Fanteakwa South], because I can gauge the mood but it’s about his elder brother’s conduct. Everybody says come and account for your stewardship. I believe that if he were here and going through the processes, nobody will mention his name.”
“I want to assure him that we will not antagonise him, especially when his sensibilities are concerned but we want to urge him to urge his big brother to come home,” Dafeamekpor said in Parliament on Wednesday, March 4, 2026.
Minority Leader’s appeal
Meanwhile, the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, has appealed to the Majority Caucus to desist from displaying placards bearing the image of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on the floor of Parliament.
“…a former Finance Minister of this Republic; no court has found him guilty. We can do our politics, but to also print his pictures deliberately and that day [Friday, February 27, 2026] the whole world’s attention was on this Chamber.
“I will plead through my friend the Chief Whip [of the Majority] to ensure that in future any such action is curtailed, controlled or stopped by him so that this House will get the needed peace,” the Effutu legislator appealed.
He further observed that a wrong precedent will be set should that conduct be allowed to continue all in the name of politics, considering that Mr. Ofori-Atta is not any ordinary individual.
“Today, the Council of Elders have summoned me that ‘Markin, what about the Caucus? Ofori-Atta, they carried his picture and called him corrupt; what is NPP doing?’ I want to assure the Honourable Duke Ofori-Atta… because I was not in the Chamber; he still insisted that the family is so concerned that as a Caucus we have not dealt with this matter and I had to rush into the Chamber to make this plea.
“I don’t intend to litigate it but I am pleading with the leadership of the Majority Caucus that enough of Ken Ofori-Atta’s name in this Chamber and the persecution and the attack on his reputation. He also is a human being, has a wife, he has children and has a brother who is a sitting member with us,” the Minority Leader said.
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