I will bow out of Parliament in 2024 – Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu

General News of Thursday, August 1, 2019

Source: Graphic.com.gh

2019-08-01

The Majority Leader in Parliament, Mr. Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has expressed his intention to re-contest the constitution of the Senate in 2020 contrary to speculation that one of the longest serving members of parliament was exiting.

In a radio interview on Accra based on Okay FM Thursday morning, Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu said it was a little more than his opponents who were spreading that falsehood.

He said God-willing, it is in 2024 that he intends to re-contest the Suame seat.

Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu has been representing the people of Suame in Kumasi since January 7, 1997.

He has served in several capacities in Parliament and has been appointed Majority Leader cum Minister of Parliamentary Affairs.

Speaking to Kwame Nkrumah Tikese on Okay FM, which was monitored by Graphic Online, the Suame MP said he was strong and alive, it was only in 2024 many of his colleagues were aware.

The man who would be spending 24years in Parliament after 2020, he said he was bored out in 2016 as a result of his illness. much. "

"I nearly acquiesced but I was prevailed upon by the President [Akufo-Addo] who advised me not to leave me and the party in the lurch. "
President Akufo-Addo is reported to have had a significant impact on the situation of parliamentarians in the past. so we're ready to go

To Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu Parliament is a place to learn but unfortunately "some MP's just pbad through Parliament but Parliament does not pbad through them."

Mr Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu related to Ms Nancy Pelosi, the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives who represent 31 years of the legendary of San Francisco and the legendary John Lewis District of Georgia since 1986.