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September 26, 2024
Member of Parliament for Sege Christian Otuteye Corleytey has bemoaned the current hybrid system of Ghana’s legislature and expressed worry over lawmakers playing dual roles as Ministers, and Members of Parliament.
According to him they have divided attention because the lawmakers who are Ministers and thus belong to the Executive arm of government and at the same time the Legislature.
In an interview he noted that, when you bring a Bill to the House as a Minister from the Executive at the same time you are an (MP), “as an MP you are expected to play a role on this Bill, you are now a Minister at the same time you have to defend the Bill from the Executive arm of Government, where do you stand?”
“It will be better for us as a Nation, if we can quickly do something about it. If we want the work of parliament to go on well we should get a clear distinction between workings of the Executive and workings of Parliament. It is not helping in terms of attendance to the House.”
He affirmed that people only rejoice over this because to beneficiaries, they are enjoying two powers “but is not the best for the nation as at now”, he lamented.
He said this in an interview on the sidelines of Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA) workshop on validating the report of the Constitutional Review Commission of the 1992 Constitution.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com