Under a screaming front page headline: ” Minority leaders denied diplomatic passports”, the Guide says: ” The politics of discrimination and exclusion which has become the hallmark of the 16-year (P)NDC juggernaut appears to be on the ascendancy despite the nearly five years of constitutional democratic dispensation enjoyed by Ghana since 1993″. The Guide says its investigations have shown that two leading members of the Minority group in Parliament, Mr J.H. Mensah, Minority Leader and Mr F.W.A. Blay, Second Deputy Speaker, were both recently denied diplomatic passports possibly because of their political lineage. “Our investigations have further revealed that in the last Parliament, the Minority Leader, Dr Owusu Agyekum and the Second Deputy Speaker, Dr S.B. Arthur, were both issued with diplomatic passports at the very beginning of that Parliament,” says the Guide. The paper says unofficial Parliamentary sources have intimated that both Mr Mensah and Mr Blay opted to return the service passports which they were given in place of the diplomatic passports they had intially applied for, before travelling abroad a forthnight ago. Mr Mensah is believed to be in London while Mr Blay is a member of a Parliamentary delegation currently touring some states in the United States. GRI
