News:
November 6, 2018
Leader of a five member delegation from the Appointment Committee of Kenya’s Parliament, Khatib A. Nwashefai has said Ghana’s Parliament can also learn from their Parliament.
According to Khatib A. Nwashefai the issue of gender and disability representation in their National Assembly has been addressed.
“We have selected specific seats where we nominate people with disability and women to undergo rigorous campaigning”, he said in an interview.
He added that it has brought about huge changes in women representation, “we have created safe seats for forty-seven (47) women”, and to give the indication that in Africa women are subjected to rigorous competition to have representation.
Again one other thing we observed despite passing a law for ten years is that provisions had not been made to accommodate persons with disability, “your Parliament building is no disability friendly”, he lamented.
On the kind of governance being practiced in Kenya, he pointed that they have the National Assembly and the county, where the National Assembly (Senate) oversee the county.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com