News:
July 31, 2018
Leader of Government Business Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has said the longer a Member of Parliament stays in the House, the better the person becomes in the wake of high attrition rate in Parliament.
According to the Leader of Government Business, his own party has decided to monitor the attendance of MPs to the House, as of when they came to the chamber and leave the chamber, hence the rate of improvement.
He further added that it would go into the factors of determining whether an MP would be retained or not in the 2020 Parliamentary election.
“We send attendance to the leader of the Party who is the President and the Party head office and would be keen in our determination”, he said.
Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu further pointed out that, “many of us who have stayed for three or two terms are even unfamiliar with the turf in Parliament”, he lamented.
When it comes to drafting of legislation which is the core business of the House, you do not see a lot of our colleagues on the floor of the House, that cannot be good people, because it raises the question of quorum, he pointed out.
Again MPs are expected to play a generalized role when they get to their constituencies, all kinds of questions would be thrown at MPs, if you are not regular at Parliament how do you address some of these issues.
“If you are not a diligent law maker and you do not attend to business on the floor of the House, how are you able to do this”, he lamented.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com