Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Majority Leader in parliament, Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has stated that it’s about time the NPP institutes an inbuilt mechanism to protect experienced MPs.
He described as a setback to the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) the defeat of some experienced Members of Parliament (MPs) in their recent primaries.
“The longer one stays in Parliament, the better a material he or she becomes,” he said in an interview on Okay FM's 'Ade Akye Abia' morning show.
“We still have a crop of members on our side who need time to mature in the House, so it would not be helpful for the constituents to be changing them even in their third terms, but if another person is also qualified by the constitution to contest them, they must not be barred,” he argued.
According to him there should be some form of inbuilt mechanisms that would ensure institutional renewal that will somehow seek to protect deserving and hard-working Members of Parliament, who are working for both parliament and their constituencies.
NPP Primaries
The NPP lost about 40 incumbent MPs in last Saturday’s primaries to choose parliamentary candidates for the 2020 December General Election.
Some of the casualties had served only one term in office, and, according to the Majority Leader, he hoped the situation would improve to help strengthen democratic dispensation.
Bigwigs chairing notable committees in Parliament and who succumbed to new entrants included Hon. Ben Abdallah, MP for Offinso-South and Chairman of Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, as well as Hon. Collins Owusu-Amankwaah, MP for Manhyia North and Chairman of Parliament’s Government Assurances Committee
He also expressed worry about the monetization of the party’s primaries, adding that it will spell doom for in the near future.
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But who is a hardworking MP? You think you can coin your own definition for words to satisfy your greed abi..? Every single person is hardworking in their own way. Your ability to speak the loudest doesn't make you hardworking. What impact have you had on your constituents? Were you born with your so called parliamentary experience? Keep lobbying, there will be a time you would lose even as a sole candidate. GREED is not good
Selfish politician. You helped pass the law against importation of salvaged titled vehicles without concern of the job loss at Suame magazine. You cared more for VW than the livelihoods of the mechanics and body shops in your constituency. You would have lost the primaries had there been a contest against you. Just retire and stop acting as if you indispensable in parliament.
And I ask myself: Did these representatives of the people who actually represent themselves and their parties contest others who lost before the got to Parliament? Didn't they learn the rudiments of the house when they got there? The earlier they should stop this crass ***barred word*** of protecting hardworking MPs the better. Do we not see people being transferred, sacked or replaced in public institutions? Do we hear such arguments like "Oh he/she is hardworking let us not replace, transfer or sack him/her?" I don't blame them I blame Ghanaian voters who waste their energies and time to vote such bunch of self-seekers as representatives.
You see how incompetence and dictators hide behind parliamentary experience work as vital. If experience is what you want then don't bother us with electing parliamentarians. Who in this world came with specific knowledge of how parliamentary proceedings works? Didn't you learn how it's done, just as the doctor, teacher, farmer etc? This shallow talk must stop. We the people decided to have better governance which includes changing parliamentarians and that is what we will have you can not change that by claims of experience, what will happen when all of you retire? You people know mp's don't develop our communities, yet you mount platforms together with your flag bearers and promise the people heaven on earth when you know it is not your job. When the time come to redeem your pledge, you claim amnesty. 90% of the things we demand from MP's are the duties of a mayor or MCE, they develop our cities infrastructure, yet instead of drafting a policy for us to vote on them to hear their vision, plans and mission for our cities, you play politics with it hence your suffering. You would have been free from this stress and pressure had you focus on Mayors and MCE's. Today they are the laziest unit of our developmental cycle because they think they are only accountable to the president and not the people who are directly affected by their actions and inactions. So ***barred word*** it up on your incompetence until you deal with the local level, you will never be free of this stress.
And there should also be an inbuilt mechanism to protect Hard Working former prez from elections. So if we want MPs for life...so shall we want prez for life!
@Speak up, Kyei Mensah saw his defeat that's why he lobbied to go unopposed.
This unopposed decision is ***barred word***. Everybody should compete. No one should be allow to stay in Accra under the pretense of parliamentary while their constituencies lack in development. Kyei-Mensah has spent years in parliament under, Rawlings, Kuffor, Mills, Mahama and now Akufo-Addo yet cannot lobby for drains in his constituency. With, the help of self seeking NPP leaders, he went unopposed. How can Ghana develop with such leaders- both NDC & NPP.