Politics of Tuesday, 25 January 2022<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n 2022-01-25<\/p>\n <\/b>Parliament sits today<\/p>\n Bagbin quotes Akufo-Addo\u2019s citizens not spectators to make point<\/p>\n Everyone has a role to play in ensuring democracy \u2013 Bagbin<\/p>\n Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has said everyone has distinct roles to play to ensure good governance and democracy is achieved.<\/p>\n Speaking to the house on the first day of resumption after parliament\u2019s recess, Bagbin noted that democracy is a collective responsibility and not just that of politicians and government officials.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is crucial for Ghanaians to know that democracy is not a determinant of just politicians and officials in government but a collective product of the leadership of political, social, private and academia in corporation with the people.<\/p>\n According to him, \u201cthis is how democratic societies are created\u201d, where everyone has a role to play in ensuring that, there is a democratic rule.<\/p>\n He further cited President Akufo-Addo\u2019s famous \u2018be citizens and not spectators\u2019 comments to emphasize the need for all, including his colleague parliamentarians, to take up the mandate of involving themselves in the process of good governance and playing their respective roles. <\/p>\n \u201cAnd I am happy that the call of his excellency the president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that we should not just be spectators but citizens.\u201d \u201cIs that right?\u201d He quizzed \u201cand that must be taken seriously,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Politics of Tuesday, 25 January 2022 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2022-01-25 Speaker of Parliament has said everyone has a role to play in democratic governance Parliament sits today Bagbin quotes Akufo-Addo\u2019s citizens not spectators to make point Everyone has a role to play in ensuring democracy \u2013 Bagbin Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has said everyone has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Speaker](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/74309634.295.jpg\" "\\"Speaker")
Speaker of Parliament has said everyone has a role to play in democratic governance<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n