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Majority leader and Minister-designate for Parliamentary Affairs, the Hon. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has pointed accusing fingers at Members of Parliament for fueling the misconception that they are development agents.
According to him, the conduct of MPs themselves has served to feed into the public perception about their real roles and responsibilities.
Members, he said, should therefore learn useful lessons from their own conduct.
Answering questions during his vetting at Parliament’s Appointments Committee on Friday, the Majority leader said, “Let me say it is not only members of the general public who so think but our own conducts also feed into that.”
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“Mr. Chairman, if anybody should ply the road from Kumasi to Tamale, the billboards that herald the conduct of parliamentary elections, many of them are still in place.”
“Look at what we have written on them. For ‘mpuntuo’ vote for me.”
“So is the general public wrong to believe in the fact that you are saying you are responsible for development?” he queried?
He stated that incumbent MPs go to communities and happily promise to fix roads because there is an opponent standing in the shadows and drumming into the heads of constituents that he/she (the MP) is not doing well.
According to him, because the incumbent wants to return to Parliament he asks for the votes with a promise to bring development projects being requested.
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He noted that those interested in removing the MP also go out there and declare the incumbent a failure and that they will bring the needed development projects when they are voted for.
Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu noted that the share of the MPs Common Fund is not adequate to finance major projects and stressed that is the primary responsibility of the Assembly.
He appealed to the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) to help Parliament to educate the populace out there that the Member of Parliament is not really a development agent.
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FrontPageGhana.com/Ghana
