The First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Bernard Ahiafor, on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, compelled the Member of Parliament for Afram Plains South, Joseph Appiah, to withdraw a comment he made about former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

According to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP, the former President plunged the country into a state of hardship, claiming that everyone in the nation including the former President’s close associates was experiencing hunger.

He referenced an incident in Parliament where the former President’s bodyguard collapsed in the chamber during a State of the Nation Address.

“Always his people go hungry. That’s why we were starving. And it was manifest in this chamber when the former President’s bodyguard fainted because he was hungry…under Mahama’s administration, this would not happen,” he said.

However, Deputy Speaker Bernard Ahiafor, who found the comment inappropriate, demanded its withdrawal.

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“Honourable Joseph Appiah, please withdraw that… kindly withdraw,” he instructed.

“Okay, I withdraw,” the MP responded.

Meanwhile, Colonel Isaac Amponsah, the personal security guard and Aide-de-Camp (ADC) to former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, indeed collapsed in Parliament on Friday, January 3, 2025, during the President’s final State of the Nation Address.

Colonel Amponsah, who has served as the President’s ADC since February 2023, reportedly suffered a medical emergency while the President was addressing the House.

Colonel Amponsah later regained consciousness and was escorted out of the chamber.

Akufo-Addo's personal bodyguard collapses in parliament

He took over the ADC position from Major-General Bismark Onwona, who was reassigned to the Army Headquarters as Commandant of the Training and Doctrine Command.



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