{"id":215231,"date":"2025-11-29T09:44:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-bagbin-refers-afenyo-markin-to-privileges-committee-over-ecowas-delegation-dispute\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T09:44:50","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T07:44:50","slug":"west-africa-bagbin-refers-afenyo-markin-to-privileges-committee-over-ecowas-delegation-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/west-africa-bagbin-refers-afenyo-markin-to-privileges-committee-over-ecowas-delegation-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Bagbin Refers Afenyo-Markin to Privileges Committee Over Ecowas Delegation Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has referred minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin to the Privileges and Immunities Committee over his role in Ghana&#8217;s ECOWAS Parliament delegation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The referral follows a petition by Mahama Ayariga, the majority leader in parliament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Mahama Ayariga argued that Afenyo-Markin acted improperly by remaining part of the delegation even after Patricia Appiagyei, deputy minority leader was selected to replace him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The matter drew attention after Appiagyei&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511280617.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has referred minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin to the Privileges and Immunities Committee over his role in Ghana&#8217;s ECOWAS Parliament delegation. The referral follows a petition by Mahama Ayariga, the majority leader in parliament. Mahama Ayariga argued that Afenyo-Markin acted improperly by remaining part of the delegation even after Patricia Appiagyei, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[40754,258,256,36927,5857,6704,9424,2557,4509,257,21902,42146,254,4375],"class_list":["post-215231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-afenyomarkin","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bagbin","tag-committee","tag-delegation","tag-dispute","tag-ecowas","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-privileges","tag-refers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}