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General News of Saturday, July 13, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-07-13
Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye
Parliamentarians have expressed dissatisfaction with the record size of Parliament since the entry into force of the 1992 constitution.
Of the 200 deputies in 1992, the Parliament now has 75 additional deputies. The majority leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, complained, the size is too huge.
He is accompanied by the deputy of Okudzeto Ablakwa, who occupies the north of Tongu, who wishes a ceiling of 200 parliamentarians.
Ghanaian MPs earn 9,000 ¢ after tax and receive at least $ 80,000 each in the form of a state-guaranteed auto loan. They also have a rent allowance of 90,000 ¢. After each term, deputies receive a gracious. At the last installment in 2012, returning MPs had raised 276,000 ¢, while outgoing MPs had 311,000 ¢.
Currently, a parliamentarian costs the taxpayer at least $ 798,000 in salary, rent, and ex gratia payments at the end of a four-year term. This increases the maintenance cost from 275 MP to a minimum of 219.4 million cedis.
John Jinapor, NDC MP for the Yapei Kusawgu constituency in the Northern Region, wants the constitutional provision for the creation of new constituencies to be reconsidered.
"Why do we have to have a constitution to increase the number of our MPs?", He also called for a limitation, while talking about the journal JoyNews Newsfile Saturday.
The Electoral Commission (EC), which has the power to create new constituencies, said that although new constituencies were part of its agenda, there was no discussion on this issue.
Ghana has created six other regions, which offers the possibility of re-delimiting constituencies.
The Parliament, two weeks ago, also unveiled architectural models for the construction of a new parliament with a possible extension to 450 seats.
The plan that followed the public unrest was set aside. The effectiveness of the institution of parliament is now receiving greater public attention.
John Jinapor lamented that MPs do not have enough resources to effectively play their role of controlling the executive.
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