Ghana Politics: Who will be unapproachable of this Parliament?

Ghanaians contingency be worried by a demeanour in that a Parliamentarians are misconducting themselves. What transpired during President Mills’ display of a State of a Nation Address on Thursday is a transparent acknowledgment that a Legislature is finished adult of people who are holding an undue advantage of Ghanaians’ calm and toleration to emanate unnecessary tragedy in a system.

Those among them, generally those in a Minority, going about criticizing President Mills for what they call his non-performance, gave democracy a bad name on a occasion. By branch themselves into referees to give President Mills a “red card,” they took their waywardness too far. That opinion is uncivilised of their standing and they should crawl their heads in shame.

No one cares what these NPP MPs meant by “mourning for a country” and being clad in red-and-black to intensify their jaunty gloomy mood. By fluttering red cards and presumably arising them to President Mills as an denote of their rejecting of his bid for re-election, they clearly demonstrated their pettiness. This kind of politics won’t solve a problems, generally when noticed opposite a credentials of their shooing a President with “Away… away… away…!!” Indiscipline during a worst, we daresay.

They surfaced it all adult with their childishness, displaying their overly mischievous side—and they did so to a best of their abilities by a kind of control that one would slightest design from MPs tasked with doing critical business to pierce a nation forward. They incited a cover into an entrance for unnecessary heckling by insulting a President for what they termed “his deplorable opening in determining a affairs of a nation over a past 3 years.”

Despite all these claims, one fact is clear: that Ghana underneath President Mills has not been on a delay all these years! So, what else would motivate that turn of indiscipline if not a distributed use of that arise to undercut a President and make him homely to Ghanaians?

Their progressing try to extort President Mills by melancholy to criticism a Thursday event in criticism opposite what they tenure their low salaries/emoluments is an apparent instance of indiscipline. How many times have they risen in support of workers perfectionist improved operative conditions? Or are they endangered usually when it comes to their possess gratification problems?

Our Parliament itself hasn’t achieved good adequate to clear what a Minority side did and will continue to do as partial of a domestic debate stunts. So, what is a basement for their vulgar undermining of a President? What is President Mills that they are not?

Of course, one competence be tempted to review some light-heartedness into that unfolding and disremember it for a comic relief, though it doesn’t pronounce good of members of a Legislature who have unsuccessful to do improved than a Executive that they are so discerning to belittle.

Can any MP tell me what poignant fulfilment this Parliament has finished to infer that a opening is improved than what a predecessors have finished or that it has been means to pierce a nation to a aloft turn in terms of governance by a contributions?

There are many aspects of inhabitant life that direct prompt legislative movement to tackle though haven’t been rubbed nonetheless since of a default on a partial of Parliament. Laws indispensable for such functions are not in place; yet, a MPs don’t caring a farthing. All they are meddlesome in is flash their standing about and looking for each event to distinction from it as such.

Of course, we take note of some developments that infer some clarity of responsibility, however slight it might be. Of sold seductiveness is a vehemence with that a Minority opposite some financial exchange entered into by a government, such as a STX Housing Project and a 3 billion Chinese loan, that have incited out to infer them right in their stance. Despite a narrow-minded domestic inlet of a Parliamentary record concerning such transactions, a insurgency put adult by a Minority in this courtesy has valid to be apt. As for a Majority side, a slightest pronounced about it, a better.

Nonetheless, a altogether opening of this stand of Parliamentarians in a 4th Republic is zero to hearten over. Apart from a slight assignments that they have carried out (such as vetting a President’s nominees for positions of trust and deliberating a Auditor-General’s news or deliberating over matters adjacent on procurement), they haven’t finished anything to stir us or to aver their cry for improved emoluments. Nor will they do so by undermining a Presidency.

These are people who pronounce with a common voice usually when their possess interests are during stake. How many times have these MPs fought for zone workers perfectionist improved conditions of service? Even when their possess drivers protested opposite their bad operative conditions, that of a MPs stepped in to support them or to quarrel for a problem to be solved?

One vital guilt for that these MPs will be remembered is their inability to pass into law a Right to Information bill, that speaks volumes for their laziness. What does it have to take for that check to be pushed through? For roughly 4 years now, this Parliament can’t interpretation work on that check to give Ghanaians a improved event to guard a opening of open officials. What is stalling work on this bill?

Again, we weep a indiscipline that has taken a improved partial of a MPs. Of late, most of a acts and pronouncements instigating indiscipline in a multitude have come from a MPs. Take a inhuman control of Kennedy Agyapong and a Sene MP (Twumasi Appiah), for instance, and we won’t demur to provide a MPs with some jot of contempt. Is that what they are in Parliament—being upheld by a sweat, toil, and blood of a Ghanaian tax-payer—to do?

As of now, tragedy has built adult to such a indicate as to portend an meaningful atmosphere when a electioneering campaigns feverishness up. From what has come from a MPs so far, we are not left in any doubt that they are instigating indiscipline and worsening amicable relationships. As partial of a inhabitant leadership, we design them to control themselves with dignity, not insane behaviour.

Until they do so, they will not authority respect. And their non-performance won’t acquire them any open magnetism either. They might quarrel for improved emoluments though shouldn’t be astounded to be told that they are a guilt and don’t merit anything of a sort. The tangible red label designed for them is in a hands of a electorate, watchful to be released to them during a suitable time.

The citizens will establish their predestine during Election 2012. Those among these MPs deceiving themselves that they will be defended during all costs will giggle during a wrong side of their mouths on that day since their performances are equally abysmal. They are a pot and should know improved not to call a kettle black!

By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
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Friday, Feb 17, 2012

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