Majority Party Members Of Parliament Are The Scourge Of Ghana's Under Development

The rebirth of constitutional democracy in January 1993 till this day, the parties in government Members of Parliament subordinates themselves willingly to Executive control for an undeserved favour.

Even though the minorities in Parliament are equally guilty, we ought not to blame them much because whatever they do the majority side would used their numbers to outwit them. This mantra of you have your say and we have our way is absolutely rubbish.

Members of Parliament are afraid to stand against government unpopular decisions and policies because if they do the establishment would sponsor candidates to unseat them, hence the sycophantic and hypocritical dance at play.

Any Member of Parliament who wants to be assertive and relevant must be seen doing the bidding of his constituents and that would be the remedy to survive any onslaught from the establishment. Speaker Alban Bagbin survived it in 2016 when the establishment were determined to dislodged him by sponsoring a candidate against him.

The attrition rate is becoming very unproductive and this can be cured by doing away with the provision on the hybrid system in the constitution. Members of Parliament who wanted to be carrier legislators must join hands with those calling for the amendments of the constitution.

It appears Members of Parliament have not taken cognizant of their failures of not doing the bidding of the constituents as the major cause for the high attrition rate in the house of Legislature.

The motivation for most of the people clamouring to become a legislature is not to serve the constituents, but wants to be considered as Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Board appointments or appointments to any other juicy office.

It's in the interest of the State to take away the incentives which is attracting those half baked individuals whose motivation is to amass wealth. It would demoralized most of them to abandon the ambition of wanting to become an MP, and that would curtailed the attrition rate in the House.

The only way the electorates can hold the government accountable is to liberate the citizenry from the cage most of us are currently put in. The ruling class are very comfortable with the docility and gullibility of the electorates and would not allow the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to perform its functions, and that explains why they are deny adequate resources which would enable them function optimally...

The best the electorates must do to this current members of Parliament is to vote out as many as possible as a message of no confidence in their performance and also an admonishment of not voting for them to do government bidding.

Mike kalley
Sociopolitical Analyst.