News:
December 6, 2018
Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram Samuel Nartey George has said to visiting students from Central University in his constituency, he had butterflies in his stomach for the first time he stood to speak in the Seven Parliament for the fourth Republic.
According to the Ningo-Prampram lawmaker anything you say on the floor of the House you need confidence.
He gave an example to the visiting students who witnessed heckling of the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu when he stood up to present the Business statement on the floor of the House.
Mr. Samuel Nartey George indicated that haven served in the Presidency of the former government and been to Parliament on countless occasion, he thought it would have been easy to speak on the floor of the House.
Again some of the MPs sitting in the chamber had been there long ago when I was young and a student at the University, and have seen them on television. “You want to talk and that person says keep quite you need to convince yourself that you are qualified to be here”.
“It takes a drive and willingness to serve, if not you do not have that you would not truly serve your people, you would be serving yourself”, he lamented.
Two out of the thirty-six students who visited wanted to know how working at the committee level is if it is usually partisan.
He responded by saying most of the time workings at the committee level is by consensus, partisan is not exhibited very often.
“You see Majority side MPs being hard on government on the committees, but in other occasion you see the partisan coming to play, for instance the cash for seat committee where we had Majority and Minority report”.
Again those who have divergent views at the committee level, the standing orders permit that their views be put there, but most of the time we try to work towards consensus.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com