News:
July 25, 2017
Immediate past President of the forum for former Members of Parliament Mr. Kosi Kedem is appealing to leadership of the seventh Parliament of the fourth Republic to come to the aid of some former MPs whose current state is nothing good to write home about.
Parliament will have to do something urgently about the “nasty state of some former MPs”, he stated. Mr. Kedemmade this remarks when the forum met in Parliament to elect new executives.
In addition, he further appeal to the leadership of the House to establish a pension scheme for sitting law makers and if possible former MPs should benefit from the scheme.
We need a lot of money to “maintain our health” investment with our end of service benefit has collapsed, he said.
“MPs retiring on end of service benefit gives them fails hope, it is not sustainable and can be best described as a mirage”, the former Hohoe South legislator lamented.
Furthermore, after serving as an MP, “we are stigmatize, we cannot get jobs to do whiles others are too advance in age to engage in any meaningful work’.
He appealed to government to make it possible for former MPs to serve on public boards no matter their political ideology.
“Service Passport should be made available to us as former MPs, to make traveling easier and convenient”.
Whiles leadership of the House were urge to allow former MPs use Parliament’s library facility as well as clinic facility.
The forum was sponsored by leadership of Parliament and saw for the first time more than eighty (80) former MPs coming together.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com