{"id":32929,"date":"2014-07-18T15:02:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=32929"},"modified":"2014-07-18T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:02:46","slug":"ensure-mps-stay-in-parliament-beyond-four-years-osei-prempeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/ensure-mps-stay-in-parliament-beyond-four-years-osei-prempeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ensure MPs stay in Parliament beyond four years \u2013 Osei Prempeh"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Deputy Attorney General under the erstwhile Kufuor Administration, Kwame Osei Prempeh has advised various political parties to draw up a plan that will ensure that their respective Members of Parliament (MPs) are retained for an extended period.<\/p>\n
Mr. Prempeh believes MPs will gain more experience if they are made to serve longer in Parliament.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey[MPs] only get experienced and then they are thrown out so let us retain our MPs\u2026, let us devise means whereby MPs can stay in Parliament,\u201dMr. Prempeh opined.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/b>, Mr. Prempeh said the rate of alteration in Ghana\u2019s Parliament is too high.<\/p>\n
According to him, MPs in United Kingdom, Germany and the United States are more experienced due to their decision to retain their MPs in Parliament.<\/p>\n
\u201cParliamentarians in UK, Germany, US, people are able to stay in Parliament for forty years and they become very experienced but our Parliament is not like that. You go to Parliament and after every four years almost half of the experienced members go away. What are we building?\u201dMr. Prempeh quizzed.<\/p>\n
Mr. Prempeh further attributed the country\u2019s problems to Ghana\u2019s refusal to institutionalize its Parliamentary democracy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are not institutionalizing democracy in terms of Parliamentary democracy and that is where the problem is coming from\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
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By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former Deputy Attorney General under the erstwhile Kufuor Administration, Kwame Osei Prempeh has advised various political parties to draw up a plan that will ensure that their respective Members of Parliament (MPs) are retained for an extended period. Mr. Prempeh believes MPs will gain more experience if they are made to serve longer in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":28565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[278,1320],"yoast_head":"\n