News:
May 24, 2021
Majority Leader, Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has said he cautioned against increasing constituencies every ten years, and for him it was ideal to maintain the Ghanaian constituencies at two hundred (200) instead of the current two hundred and seventy-five (275).
According to him now people are enquiring if the current Electoral Commission under the leadership of Jean Mensah would add on to the 275 constituencies Ghana has.
He recounted in an interview that we use to have one hundred and forty (140) then under the former President Kufuor, we moved to two hundred (200), then to two hundred and thirty (230) after which additional forty-five (45) was added which ballooned the number to two hundred and seventy-five (275).
“Those days, I raised issues that where we were going as a country was dangerous, if another party comes and the numbers are increased, we should not scream today because it favors you, you are laughing, I cannot tell if the EC would increase constituencies because I don’t work with the EC”.
Mr. Osei-Kyei further noted that everywhere else it is the population quota that changes and not the constituencies. Again, as a nation we cannot continue increasing our constituencies, “we do not even have the resources to do that; people did not listen when matters come up for discussion, let us discuss those matters in a nationalistic and objectively and not pick and choose, otherwise we would lose it as a nation”, he emphasized.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com