MPs angry at the results of research

General News on Thursday, June 13, 2019

Source: dailyguidenetwork.com

2019-06-13

Yesterday (Tuesday), members of Parliament expressed anger and frustration at a recent study by the Department of Political Science of the University of Ghana on the performance of MPs.

According to MEPs, the research does not scientifically include all official and unofficial duties of MPs.

They therefore characterized research research as "fictitious" not based on scientific requirements, parameters and basic modalities.

Senior Vice President, Joseph Osei-Owusu, spoke in the House on Tuesday about how anxious such research or surveys had been pointing out that the metrics for measuring a member's performance would not be the same. were not exhaustively taken into account in the report.

According to the first vice-president, the work of the deputies is not only based on the constituency, but mainly in parliament and in committees of parliament.

Mr. President, last year, when I was President, a similar report was published and discussed, and I asked the Committee on Constitutional, Legal and parliamentarians to consult with political research institutions and to determine the parameters for badessing MPs' performance, "he said.

He told Parliament that, according to the Constitution, MPs are required to represent their constituents in parliament, to legislate and lobby for the development of their constituency, and not just to be present in their constituencies.

The leader of the minority, Haruna Iddrisu, said that the results of the research, according to which 180 non-performing MPs, majority majority for the first time, will be voted in the general elections of 2020, underline that the supposed results will certainly influence the primary ones. parliamentarians of the two major political parties. the parties in the country and finally the attrition rate in parliament that has been a worrying situation for Ghana's democracy.

He therefore proposed that the chairman of the commission, who would chair the first vice-president, create a special committee to appeal to the political science department of the University of Ghana to determine the foundations of the research and the way in which which they reached at the conclusion reached, stressing that most Ghanaians do not know the true constitutional duties of a deputy.

NDC deputies for Aowin and Yilo Krobo, Mathias Ntow and Kofi Amoatey, respectively, seriously criticized the results of the research, claiming that these findings were "false" and that researchers could not use the work of a researcher. member of his constituency to judge him. .

Research conducted by the University of Ghana ranked NDC deputy of South Asutifi, Collins Dauda; MPP MP Effutu, Alex Afenyo-Markin; NPP MP for Abetifi, Bryan Acheampon; NPP MP for Atiwa East, Abena Osei-Asare; Emmanuel Kofi Armah Buah; NDC deputy for northern Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa; NDC deputy for Adaklu, governors Kwame Agbodza; MPP Deputy Akim Swedru, Kennedy Osei Nyarko; NDC MP for North Dayi, Joycelyn Tetteh and NDC MP for Ketu South, Fiifi Kwetey, are the top 10 MPs.