FALL OF 40 NPP MP’S; STRENGTH OF PARLIAMENT MAY WEAKENED ~ POLICY ANALYST WORRIES.

Social Policy Analyst, Mr Kojo Addo says parliamentary work will be affected by the loss of experienced parliamentarians in the just ended New Patriotic Party parliamentary primary.

At the end of the Parliamentary primaries counting, forty NPP sitting MPs lost and will not be returning to Parliament after 2020.

The Analyst, Mr. Kojo Addo stated that If everyone leaves parliament to make way for fresh faces every four years, the strength of Parliament may be weakened since parliament is a house of procedure and precedents.

The Social Policy Analyst is concerned that the NPP party and Parliament will lose the experience these legislators have gained from their years of service.



He said the role as a parliamentarian under 4th Republic has changed as he claim’s electorates cast their votes for MPs into office to provide social amenities, infrastructure and construct roads, but, Meanwhile, he totally disagreed to judge an MP base on the number of roads he constructed in his or her constituency.

Kojo Addo attributed the shocking fall of the MP’s to the restless responsibilities as chairpersons of such committees as it denies most legislatures the freedom to be present in their constituencies as expected.

In conclusion, he charged journalists to use their available platform to intensify education on duty of a legislature to ease the overloads on them.

Mr Kojo Addo was speaking in Offinso Time FM News interview with Kaakyire Kwasi Afari on the just ended simultaneous NPP parliamentary primaries.