The side which earlier announced they will be boycotting the sitting made their way out just as the national anthem ended.
Clad in black, they moved out repeating a part of the anthem that says 'and help us to resist oppressors rule with all our will and might forever more'. Members of the majority side however sent off their colleagues with chants of 'away'.
Their actions have triggered mixed reactions from the Ghanaian people.
Speaking on the matter, madam Owusu-Ekuful without mincing words, said the decision to boycott the proceedings was senseless.
“If indeed the president had said something offensive which they were reacting to, it would have been understood,” she said on JoyNews. “But staging a walkout which is uncalled for, totally without reason, it looks as if they’ve taken leave of their senses; excuse me to say. Particularly when their leadership also indulges in this completely unnecessary and senseless exercise…”
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