News:
May 17, 2021
The Chief Director of the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs (MoPA), Dr. Evans Aggrey-Darkoh has given the indication of the Ministry deepening its relationship with Parliament, as the 8th Parliament kick starts its second meeting of the first session on Tuesday, May 25, 2021.
According to him this would be to the mutual benefit of both institutions, as there is a country to govern and at any point in time a group of people would be in charge, and there is the need for the contribution of a group that is not in charge.
“Those who are not in charge, their contribution is to critic and identify weakness in any legislation proposal with the view of coming out with recommendations that would enhance and strengthen of a law or a piece of legislation. To see if the implementation would have a ripple effect on the citizenry, that is what we are looking at, what we did in the last four years, we have high regard for Parliament and the institution itself has a lot of respect for things that we do”
Dr. Aggrey pointed out that parliament has found it extremely useful their programmes which are held outside the House and have participated in their numbers both the majority and minority, “so we do not anticipate a different story this year. We hoping that as they come, we would start engaging the core leadership and later the committees”.
As to what MoPA can do to support the sector Minister considering the numerical strengthen of both the NPP and the NDC, he noted that there is a balancing perspective and goodwill from both sides of the House.
And was quick to point out that, MoPA operates within a certain budgetary constraints, it is not an open ended budget, but they are well positioned to play their role as they reconfigure their scope in terms of strengthening the human capital base and improve on the quality of what they do for mutual benefit.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com