Free for All Combat in Ghana's Parliament !

Free for All Combat in Ghana’s Parliament !

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Call it a comic parliamentary session and you will not be wrong as Ghanaian parliamentarians Wednesday, engaged in a free for all combat with feisty cuffs freely distributed.

Those who could not get into the wrestling ring cheered from the sidelines desperately wishing they could also get in the fray to dish out their own.

Reports say that opposition politicians clashed prompting a military intervention to quell the fracas.

Fight broke out when the legislators were voting the next parliament speaker and a lawmaker made to seize the ballot box.

The brawl is reported to have lasted several hours prompting the army to move in when events were broadcast live.

MP-elect Kwame Twumasi Ampofo of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) said that “There was total breakdown of law and order

“Looking at a member of parliament and a minister of state snatching ballot papers was so shameful,” he said.

“Looking at a member of parliament and a minister of state snatching ballot papers… was so shameful.”