Code of Conduct for Parliament will save Ghana most embarrassment

It is by no small fluke that many have cursed a opinion of a minority New Patriotic Party [NPP] on a building of Parliament on Thursday, Feb 17, 2012, during a display of a State of a Nation Address by His Excellency President John Evans Atta Mills.

President Mills met maybe a rudest accepting while endeavour a constitutionally mandated practice as prisoner underneath Article 67 of a 1992 Constitution of a commonwealth of Ghana that reads, “The President shall, during a commencement of any event of Parliament and before a retraction of Parliament, broach to Parliament a summary on a state of a nation”.

It would be removed that a Minority Leader, Hon. Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, publicly broke a President when he refused to accept a handshake offering him shortly after His Excellency finished delivering a “Action Year State of a Nation Address” in 2011. A handshake from a President has developed as a gathering in Parliament offering to a care on both order before a President’s exit from a cover of parliament.

This time round, a minority NPP took that opinion a step aloft as they dressed in anguish garments according to dictates in Ghanaian custom, with printed red cards in willingness for a President’s attainment during a Chamber of Parliament to commence a inherent mandate.

The display was injured by scoffs, endless interjections, screams, delight and ripping into songs by a minority NPP to a discomfit of observers, adults and worse of all members of a Diplomatic Corps who were duly represented in Parliament. It was even some-more annoying for a picture of Ghana as this practice was promote live on many radio and radio networks and streamed online on a worldwide web [www].

The whole practice was devalued by a opinion and viewpoint of a Minority who came to council with a rehearsed strain targeted during possibly derailing a exercise, undermining a display or to make hoax of a persona of President, a august House and a Constitution of a Republic of Ghana. He undertook a practice on a summons of a people of Ghana who have vested their will and powers in a 1992 Constitution and a sum disregard shown a President was equally meant for a good people of Ghana.

Ghana positively is a guide of wish on a African continent and over generally with a successes we have chalked adult with a singular rehearse of multi-party democracy given a days of His Excellency President Jerry John Rawlings. Many of a neighbours still demeanour adult to a practices and conventions as a many convincing and home-grown yardstick for democratizing polities.

It is opposite this certification that council ought to set some belligerent manners for members so as to bloat adult earnest and honour for a bureau of a Head of State whenever he/she appears before a House to lift out a will of a people.

Two days to a presentation, a swindling opposite a practice was for a Chambers to be emptied in criticism over what a members of Parliament wish us to trust were low salary and salaries paid them for their services. One wonders what that protest would have achieved if it was carried out anyway aside annoying a President.

This is a same residence that upheld laws abhorring any form of industrial movement in honour of direct for softened operative conditions and salaries nonetheless they have selected a same trail they illegalized by a laws of Ghana. That brings their honour for a laws underneath vicious inspection as law makers and a earnest they insert to what they do in a best seductiveness of a nation.

Moving forward, a care of Parliament contingency cruise introducing and enforcing a formula of control for members to control a border to that such a inhabitant practice could trouble-maker into a flitting practice anytime a sitting President comes before a residence to commence constitutionally mandated assignments.

Furthermore, a MPs should bashful divided from these acts of fluctuating their promotion outfits onto a building of parliament. The practises where headbands, clothes, poster are used to possibly confuse a display of a State of a Nation Address and to means undue reeling on a building of a residence contingency be avoided.

Seriousness contingency be trustworthy to a practice to a border that a MPs contingency be seen to be meddlesome in what a President is presenting to a republic and to a universe during vast as a vicious practice on a calendar.

We need to honour a bureau of a President even if we cruise ourselves improved than a chairman inaugurated by a renouned votes of a people to lift out a charge of his government.

The Minority NPP’s opinion and viewpoint as displayed during a state of a republic residence was many hapless and grossly unpleasant to a structure of Ghana. We contingency never come to declare that grave annoyance forced on a picture as a republic anymore in a story and Parliament contingency take a lead in environment a belligerent manners for destiny encounters as to what is acceptable, what is not acceptable, what is advantageous and what contingency be avoided.

Ghana stays a beacon running a trail of many countries on a continent to multi-party approved practices. That repute and firmness contingency be stable and made to urge a possess approved credentials. Our MPs contingency join in a efforts to pierce Ghana brazen by their actions, utterances and joining to a really exercises that concretize a democracy and order of law.

God Bless a Homeland Ghana.
God Bless President Mills.

Felix Mawulolo Amegashie
NDC Youth Activist.
Email: elolo.elolo@gmail.com

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