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Africa Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA), has described as unfortunate the recent allegation of immigration-related offences by some current and former Members of Parliament.<\/p>\n

According to the civil society organization, the allegation dents the legislative body\u2019s integrity.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”gUaTauxgKJknFjzGvLIDhEUVh2kRVokB”]The British High Commissioner to Ghana, Jon Benjamin, in a letter leaked to the media earlier this week, announced that four legislators including a former MP, have been banned for ten years from entering the UK for various illegal immigration practice facilitated by their diplomatic passports.<\/p>\n

Their offenses include helping supposed relatives overstay their visas<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in the UK.<\/p>\n

The Executive Director of ACEPA, Dr. Rasheed Dramani, said, \u201cI think it is yet another heavy blow to the integrity of our Parliament and that is how I will describe it. It is quite unfortunate, and what makes it more unfortunate is the timing of it; at a time when we are healing from another scandal.\u201d<\/p>\n

On calls for the diplomatic passports of Members of Parliament to be withdrawn following the allegations, Dr. Rasheed Dramani said withdrawing the diplomatic passports will amount to nothing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is not a question of diplomatic passports. It is more about anybody who carries the Ghanaian identity to show that they are a worthy ambassador\u2026 The issue is more about all Members of Parliament being guided by the fact that they have a heavy responsibility that they carry in the way they do everything and carry themselves at all times.\u201d<\/p>\n

All the MPs implicated in the alleged incident have been slapped with a 10-year ban<\/strong><\/a><\/span> from the UK.<\/p>\n

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\nBy: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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