News:
March 7, 2018
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has said Ghana cannot pride itself with the number of female representation in the country’s legislature currently.
According to the Majority Leader, out of the 275 MPs the female representation is only 31, and lamented over the number looking at how far Ghana has come with its Parliamentary democracy.
As part of a symposium to mark 25 years of an interrupted parliamentary democracy, recounting how “men on the horseback” during any military intervention parliament was dissolved.
Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu noted that the International Parliamentary Union (IPU) requires that by 2020 a third of parliaments would have appreciable female representations in their legislature.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com