{"id":443006,"date":"2017-12-02T11:11:08","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T11:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/02\/mps-spend-an-average-of-gh%c2%a22million-during-campaigns-alban-bagbin\/"},"modified":"2017-12-02T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T11:11:08","slug":"mps-spend-an-average-of-gh%c2%a22million-during-campaigns-alban-bagbin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/02\/mps-spend-an-average-of-gh%c2%a22million-during-campaigns-alban-bagbin\/","title":{"rendered":"MPs spend an average of GH\u00a22million during campaigns &#8211; Alban Bagbin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Politics of Saturday,  2 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>mynewsgh.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/18207710.295.jpg\" alt=\"Alban Bagbin Fresh Fresh\" title=\"Alban Bagbin Fresh Fresh\" width=\"295\" height=\"169\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Alban Kinsford Bagbin, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1512213068_840_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">A Parliamentary aspirant seeking to enter the legislature in Ghana should be prepared to cough a little over GH\u00a22million for campaigns and other over head costs.<\/p>\n<p>The longest serving lawmaker in Ghana\u2019s parliament and Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Alban Kinsford Bagbin who made the shocking disclosure, said \u2018moneycracy\u2019 is gradually taking over democracy in the country as a result.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our minds political office is private business so young men and women are struggling to be members of the national parliament. Your salary is so low it cannot take you up to two weeks. When you join a political party to be a parliamentary candidate and go round to campaign, party members demand money. When you pay courtesy calls on chiefs you are supposed to part with something\u201d, he disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the resources candidates dole out are supposed to come from their own pockets and in situations where they are unable to meet that challenge they rely on \u2018money bags\u2019 a term used to describe the sources that fund the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you go to talk to your party members and any of them you approach, they will tell you that you cannot just come and talk to me like that and go away. When you visit the chiefs the courtesy must be followed your pocket is empty. Some people are funding you and you are dolling out to the constituents because they know their bread is buttered when you are in office\u201d, he disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are going around and you are not greasing palms they will vote against you. When you do not organize events and let the drinks, food and music flow you are bound to lose.  If you don\u2019t visit the community too, they will tell you that you do not respect and will vote against you. You don\u2019t have the money and some people are sponsoring.  You spend about two million Ghana cedis to be elected as a member of parliament. Now you are in parliament and there is call \u2018serve the state\u2019. \u2026Who who pays the piper calls the tune\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that those who sponsor you are in the shadow and need to be satisfied despite the party\u2019s manifesto that is in place.<\/p>\n<p>Hon Bagbin observed that politicians go through this struggle to be elected which is the genesis of corruption reiterating the need for something to be done in order to reverse the trend.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We can\u2019t fight corruption and when I speak out then I am lambasted and insulted, but that is the truth and you cannot take it away. Recently I was talking about Nana Akufo-Addo and I said well after fighting three world wars and becoming president, all those three world wars people funded you and now you say you are going to fight corruption, you think they are \u201cFather Christmas?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m charging the President to lead the way in cleansing the system, redefine politics and also reduce the cost of political business in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: -1 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics of Saturday, 2 December 2017 Source: mynewsgh.com 2017-12-02 Alban Kinsford Bagbin, Second Deputy Speaker of Parliament A Parliamentary aspirant seeking to enter the legislature in Ghana should be prepared to cough a little over GH\u00a22million for campaigns and other over head costs. 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