Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said yesterday that attempts by Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) MPs to prevent Pineridge MP Kwasi Thompson from presenting a minority report on the New Providence Road Improvement Project (NPRIP) were “absolutely disgraceful”.
Thompson is a member of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), whose chairman, Dr. Bernard Nottage, presented the PAC’s official report in the House of Assembly on Monday.
“I’ve been in Parliament now for 34 years,” Ingraham told reporters at a luncheon yesterday. “No political party has ever carried on like that over any issue at any time.
“It was absolutely disgraceful and unbecoming, but as I said at a public meeting recently, as election gets nearer the PLP becomes more and more desperate and they would get nastier in terms of the things they say and do. Today was clearly an example of that.”
PLP Member of Parliament Frank Smith, who was standing in front of Thompson, actually pushed his microphone away from him on more than one occasion.
