It is the right time for me to bow out of parliament – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu<\/b><\/p>\n One must bow out when the applause is loudest – Suame MP<\/p>\n Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu is the longest serving MP<\/p>\n Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has indicated that he would serve as a member of parliament for the last time in the 8th Parliament of Ghana.<\/p>\n According to Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu who has been an MP since 1996, he would no longer contest to be an MP because he feels this was the right time to bow of Parliament on a high.<\/p>\n The Majority Leader who was reported to have disclosed this by myjoyonline said,<\/p>\n \u201cWe have sounded from the rooftops already, which means that the decision has been made. I\u2019m not contesting; that\u2019s for the avoidance of doubt.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cTime comes that one must decide to bow out when the applause is loudest,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, aside being the majority leader, is also the MP for Suame and the minister for parliamentary affairs which implies he leads every government business in Parliament.<\/p>\n Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu is the longest-serving MP. He has been an MP since 1996, in the 2nd Parliament of the 4th Republic, all as the representative for the Suame Constituency in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n The longest-serving MP has served in various committees of Parliament including Appointments Committee, Business Committee, Committee of Selection, House Committee, Lands and Forestry, Special Budget Committee and Standing Orders Committee.<\/p>\n He comes from Bremang-Afrancho Kumasi in the Ashanti Region and is married with five children. He holds BSc (Planning) KNUST, 1982. He is a Development Planner\/Architect\/Quantity Surveyor. Hon. Bonsu is a Christian and fellowships with the Assemblies of God church.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu It is the right time for me to bow out of parliament – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu One must bow out when the applause is loudest – Suame MP Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu is the longest serving MP Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has indicated that he would serve as a member of parliament for the last time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976680","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=976680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Majority](\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/736\/73679185.295.jpg\" "\\"Majority")
Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n