News:
October 9, 2024
Member of Parliament for Ho West Emmanuel Kwasi Bedzrah has indicated that he is prepared to participate in Business of the House as the House resumes from recess on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.
According to him he is prepared to meet anywhere if it is under a tree as the House will be meeting at the Dome, with work on the chamber still underway. and not completed yet and express joy, returning to the House.
The MP who in an interview expressed delight over the return of the House also pointed out that he knows it is an election year and a lot of his colleagues will be busy campaigning.
Again, those who decided not to come back to the House and those who lost their primaries will be a bit free whiles others will be campaigning for their presidential candidate as well.
“I have witnessed such a situation before, I have been in the House for the past four terms and I have seen that of 2012, 2016 and 2020 and so you will be surprised that you will get to Parliament and you have only two or three people there and the rest are campaigning in their various constituencies.
As we all know, no one plays around election and election year and you cannot predict how things will go, so you need to put your house in order and make sure you are ready for it despite being in Lome – Togo here on ECOWAS Parliament assignment”.
“I rush to the constituency to go and campaign; we have just ended the third Extraordinary meeting, of the ECOWAS Parliament, I am prepared to get back to the constituency and hit the ground running before October 15 and rush back to the Ghanaian Parliament”, he said.
He said representing his constituents is a social contract that he signed with my constituents to serve them both at the national and outside the national parliament, stating that the election period is more of assessment by the very people you represent to see if you are fit to be sent back or not.
“It is my prayer that my party and our flagbearer John Dramani Mahama emerge victorious to move Ghana forward, we have moved two steps back in the last eight years, and this is an opportunity to reset Ghana”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.co/Lome Togo