News:
July 13, 2018
Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has said the ability of Members of Parliament and Parliament as an institution to fight corruption has to do with its competence.
According to the Majority Leader to that extent, there is the need to interrogate the process that MPs go through to get themselves elected.
He further urged Ghana’s anti-corruption coalition to take particular interest in the selection process of the various political parties activities that leads to MPs getting elected to represent the various constituencies.
“Every four years we keep peeling off Members of Parliament, how are we able to position MPs to play their core functions as legislators, out of the one hundred and sixty-nine Majority side MPs eighty-nine are fresher’s”, he said.
Again in the sixth Parliament, the then opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has hundred and twenty-two, we had seventy members who were fresher’s, he lamented.
“Parliament is not like a palm wine, when you test it and throw it off, rather the longer you stay the better it is for the institution and the better you place Parliament and the MPs to fight corruption yet we pretend everything is normal with us”.
I said at our party congress to elect national officers that, Article 59 of the 1992 constitutions said from all the Regions of the Country we shall elect party officers, to what extend are we satisfying this constitutional provision?
Yet we pretend everything is alright with our democracy, there is no one who goes into politics to become a father Christmas, they sow today they want to reap tomorrow. Unlike a church song which says cast your bread onto the waters and in the future you would reap, he said.
Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu told the visiting Ghana anti-corruption coalition they know what is involved in the various primaries of all the political parties and the coalition need to get involve for them to take introspection reflections.
Minister of Parliamentary Affairs noted that Parliament can exchange and compare notes with (GACC), because, “we are working in the interest of Ghanaian citizens and again with the kind of system of government we are running let us ask ourselves how do we protect the public purse, he questioned.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com