8th Parliament more toothless in rubber-stamping executive decisions than the previous ones – Gyampo

Political Science Lecturer Ransford Gyampo has indicated that the 8thParliament which most Ghanaians thought will not be business as usual will rather be the most toothless bulldog in the history of Parliaments in the country.

After the 2020 elections, both the NDC and the NPP had 137 seats each in Parliament with one seat been for an Independent candidate who opted to work with the Majority in Parliament.

Ghanaians were of the belief that with the kind of numbers in Parliament, the Majority will not have its way around like it previously used its numbers to push policies and programmes which do not favour the people of Ghana.

But that seems not to be the case because the majority in Parliament since the election has not been subjected to scrutiny by the Minority as several appointments, the budget went through without any form of sweat.

Reacting to this development, Prof Ransford Gyampo has noted that clearly, the 8th Parliament will just be business as usual unlike the hope the country had for it to check the ruling government and put it on its toes.

His post shared on Facebook read “The minority group, especially, their members who pontificate on finance and the economy, owe us an explanation on the unanimous approval of KOA as FM. I personally do not have problems with the FM, but we were, through the incessant bastardization of his policies by the minority group, made to believe that he was the most greedy, insensitive, corrupt and incompetent Minister in the previous administration. Was the Minister that good in his first term to warrant such a unanimous approval? What was the basis of the critical stance against some of his policies by the minority group? Was it just propaganda against him or it was sheer ignorance on their part? Were they criticizing the man, just to look good in the sight of the populace?

Does it mean their criticisms weren’t well-founded? What?If KOA is that much of a political saint, then the minority group owe Ghanaians an apology for demonizing the man, and hence forth, they must not be taken serious on their criticisms of government. We cannot be taken for granted all the time by politicians. We aren’t always that gullible.

The kind of nauseating politics of convenience being practiced in Ghana, is a needless sale of the soul of human conscience and this must stop. It appears the kind of Parliament we have now may even be more toothless in rubber-stamping executive decisions than the previous ones. The minority group would only bark and hypnotize us into thinking they would assert the role of parliament as countervailing authority. But they would sing the praises of the ruling government even louder than members of the government, when they are required to assert parliamentary sovereignty. The evidence is their contradictory conducts at the Appointment Committee and the Plenary Session of the House”.

Source: MyNewsGh.com/ 2021

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