News:
May 31, 2018
First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei-Owusu lamented on Wednesday and wondered if getting offices for Members of Parliament had helped the institution considering lateness of MPs to chamber and not even showing up sometimes.
According to the first Deputy Speaker when MPs did not have offices they came to the chamber on time in their numbers, most of them gathered at the MPs cafeteria and entre the chamber on time.
He lamented over current practice where MPs sit in their offices and would not show up in the chamber whiles others monitor through their monitors to find out if the Speaker who is always on time had started proceedings in the House.
Again I have observed that since we have offices now some MPs come in, sign and go back and sit in their offices.
MPs are not happy that some of the NGOs that work with Parliament publish the names of legislators who absent themselves from the chamber and some have threatened to petition the Speaker for some MPs to be withdrawn, he said.
“Nobody would be happy if that happens, but if we go by the records so of us have breach the constitution and not ought to be members of the House, I encourage members to take work in the House serious’.
In addition we have been advised to come into the main chamber, do some business before we leave the chamber for other committee works, he said.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com