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Brawl In Ghanaian Parliament Leads To Suspension of Lawmakers

Speaker of Ghana's Parliament Alban Bagbin has suspended several lawmakers after a violent altercation where members of the body's vetting committee damaged furniture in the building. MPs from the ruling National Democratic Congress had accused their opposition colleagues of deliberately stalling a parliamentary process with "excessive questioning".

Speaker Bagbin condemned the fight as a "gross affront to the dignity of Parliament", while announcing a two-week suspension of four lawmakers. This marks the third violent clash in the country's Parliament in the past four years.

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Isaac Kaledzi / Deutsche Welle

Ghana's parliament (file photo).

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