Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has revealed some of the current crop of Members of Parliament (MPs) lack the understanding of some parliamentary work though they have been in the house for two to three terms, MyNewsGh.com reports. Ghanaian MPs must do self-introspection- Ace Annan
“I met with some of the MPs at workshop at Peduase last Friday night and I was taking them through some parliamentary procedure, but some of them who have served for two and three terms did not understand a lot of what I was telling them, so they said I should be taking them through those procedures everyday”
He said it is therefore not advisable to remove any MP from the house in their first term because “it will not uplift the image of the party in the house”.
The MP for Suame revealed how members of a certain committee compelled him to follow them to a programme in the United States of America, “only three days after he had returned from that country; but I agreed to go with them, though reluctantly because the delegation would have fallen short on experience if I had turned down their request to go with them”.
“Who will stand in for the government in Parliament if the current group who are been groomed is removed from the house; that would mean we are undermining the party, so I will plead with my party to find people who can stand in for the party and not heed to calls from outsiders that some of them have been in the house for too long”, he said.
“I’m not saying this for the Suame Constituency alone; I say it for the whole Ashanti region and the whole NPP family in Ghana that, let us not be deceived by anybody, but we must find people that we can build and maintain in Parliament”, the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs advised.
He however said the party must take a decisive action on persons who might have caused disaffection for the party in their constituencies, by doing this that may affect the votes of the party in the general elections, but those new ones who are doing genuinely well must be protected.
