51st CPA Conference In Abuja: Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu and Haruna Iddrisu Admonish Parliaments In Africa

The Majority Leader and Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Hon Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has urged Parliaments in Africa to be up and doing in terms of discharging their duties as the oversight institution of the executive.

The Leader of Government Business in Parliament made the comment whilst chairing a workshop on the topic: "The Role of African Parliaments in Combating Covid 19, Country experiences", at the ongoing 51st Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference in Abuja, Nigeria.

According to Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, often, the Public Account Committee as well as other committees of African Legislatures delay in tracking the use of state funds by the executive which is not the best for effective policing of the disbursement of the public purse.

He therefore urged African Parliaments to live up to their role as the central institution of democracy.

In a related development, the Minority Leader and MP for Tamale South, Haruna Iddrisu, has called on Parliaments in Africa to prioritise the need for increased budgetary allocation for interventions aimed at improving the lives of women and children whose plight have been worsened as a result of the economic challenges created by the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
He made the comment today in Abuja when he chaired a workshop on the topic: The gender impact of Covid-19 Pandemic; Counting the cost of the health crisis on Women and Children in Africa.

He described the impact of Covid 19 on Women and the growth and upbringing of Children in Africa as unacceptable.