News:
October 19, 2010
The Member of Parliament for Adenta in Accra, Mr Kojo Adu-Asare has disagreed with the rating given him by the Africa Watch magazine, saying he deserved at least a ‘C’.
Mr Adu-Asare has been rated D by the magazine, but he said the magazine has not been entirely fair to him.
The Adenta MP told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show hosted by Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah that while he regarded the ratings as a wake-up call to all MPs, he believes the criteria used in measuring their performance should be extensive.
The Africa Watch Magazine scored the MPs on five main areas: (1) Knowledge about lawmaking and the constitution; (2) How active MPs are in conducting their legislative business; (3) Their contribution to Parliamentary debates and how their ideas and suggestions reflect society’s needs and interest; (4) Tolerance of views divergent to theirs of their party’s policies and agenda and (5) Ethics.
Out of the 230 MPs, only two; Minority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, and former Majority Leader, Alban Bagbin obtained marks between 95 and 100 per cent representing exceptional performance, and in the case of Bagbin rated C in the current exercise, his A rating stems from when he was Majority Leader.
About 14 MPs, obtained marks between zero and 49 which earned them grade F and which also means they performed poorly on the areas on which they were assessed.
Mr Adu-Asare recounted the contributions he made as member of the Parliamentary Select Committee on Agriculture and wondered whether those contributions were taken into account by the Africa Watch magazine in grading him.
Source: joyfm