th<\/sup>\u00a0Parliament will suffer from the exit of experienced members known as \u201cold hands.\u201d<\/p>\nSome 18 lawmakers of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), including the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, have decided not to seek re-election.<\/p>\n
Mr. Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who is a Member of Parliament (MP) for Suame in Kumasi, is a lone ranger in the party\u2019s caucus from the 1997 stock.<\/p>\n
It is not clear why the Majority Leader is taking a bow, but a tradition of mocking longstanding MPs as \u201cMugabe\u201d cannot be ruled out.<\/p>\n
Mr. Ibrahim indicated that the departure of Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, who was trained by J.H. Mensah, will have a negative impact on Parliament.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs for representation, you will get somebody to represent you, but as for replacement, you cannot replace the institutional memory and capacity of the departing MP, and that is how Parliament is going to be negatively affected,\u201d the Minority Deputy Whip stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe take you, invest in you and throw you out,\u201d he lamented, and suggested that the government\u2019s underutilisation of experienced MPs might have contributed to their decision to exit the House.<\/p>\n
He claimed that the potential of Essikado MP, Joe Ghartey, and Asante-Akim Central MP, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi had been squandered because the government\u00a0refused to allow them to play major roles.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see Joe Ghartey, you see Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, which post is he holding? Zero,\u201d he told Accra-based radio station, Citi FM<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\nAhmed continued, \u201cJoe Ghartey, which post is he holding? Zero. Joe Ghartey was a former Attorney General and a former Deputy Speaker, but he is there, and his party is not using him. So he sees himself as being underutilised.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd do you think that when that happens he will contest again, he will not. Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi was a law lecturer from Tech, he is here, they left him and took a first-timer as an Attorney General, Deputy Attorney General in those days. Anyimadu-Antwi is still there, a law lecturer, with 16 years in Parliament,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the NPP MP for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has also said that the Majority Leader is irreplaceable.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can you do the work of Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu? He has a devoted time [for Parliament]. Let me explain. It is not the frequency of which he will visit his constituency and be greeting people that matters. That is not what will make him the people\u2019s MP,\u201d he said on Asempa FM<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\u201cGo and see the work that Kyei-Mensah does in Parliament and the time he has for the work. He can sit for several hours to prosecute the business of government, while the Speakers keep changing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one who is coming cannot fit into Kyei-Mensah\u2019s shoe. Kyei-Mensah is just a short-smallish guy, but his shoe is big and long for the good works he has done for the NPP,\u201d Kennedy Agyapong noted.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n
By Ernest Kofi Adu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Joe Ghartey, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu \u00a0 Deputy Whip of the Minority in Parliament, Ahmed Ibrahim, has stated that the 9th\u00a0Parliament will suffer from the exit of experienced members known as \u201cold hands.\u201d Some 18 lawmakers of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), including the Majority Leader, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, have decided not to seek re-election. Mr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"\n
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