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The Minority side in Ghana's Legislative house seems to be struggling in defending why they tagged Madam Lydia Alhassan as a 'Bloody Widow' on a placard while the latter was being sworn in as the Ayawaso West Wuogon Member of Parliament.

The Collins Dictionary says 'Bloody' is used by some people to emphasize what they are saying, especially when they are angry.

Apart from that when a person describe a situation or event as bloody, it means that it is very violent and a lot of people are killed.

So one may ask what the minority meant when they wrote 'bloody widow' on the placard.

Explaining why in an interview on Citi FM's Eyewitness news, Tuesday, the Member of Parliament for the Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak suggested that they used that phrase to express their unhappiness about what happened at the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency.

The MP who thinks the word 'bloody' means to be upset or unhappy says it is 'sacrilegious' to equate the violence that led to the injury of some NDC members to 'bloody widow'

"It is sacrilegious to equate levels of violence that were unleashed . . . and you are saying these people who have been injured equates to a placard showed on the floor of parliament? In English when someone says something is bloody, it means we are upset or unhappy about it . . . I’m sure you’ve heard the expression bloody liar and the rest; saying that her election was characterised by a lot of violence . . .and I don’t think we should equate this . . . by what you are doing (querying bloody widow), you are actually offending the people who are on their sick bed . . . I am not sure the sensibility of the person is in anyway offended simply because we expressed in English using many adjectives . . ." he indicated.