As Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin presides over Parliament as Speaker and with his leadership characterized by violence where the Members of Parliament are seen engaging in fisticuffs over the controversial electronic transaction levy, a former Central Regional Minister, Kwamena Duncan, has sought to give him some nuggets of wisdom.
Last year, the Parliamentarians took matters into their own hands and boxed one another in the House causing the e-levy final voting to be adjourned to the month of January this year.
Parliament resumed sitting on Tuesday, January 25, 2022 and the dressing of the Speaker attracted the eyes of many Ghanaians.
The Speaker appeared in the chamber arrayed in African regalia looking like a Chief.
Speaking on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', Kwamena Duncan found the Speaker to be unserious about his position in Parliament.
To him, the Speaker is joking with Parliament, so cautioned him to act like a Speaker.
"Alban Bagbin Rt. Hon., after being elected, very initially; he showed very wonderful signs. He's going to be a firm Speaker, a Speaker that will not be non-partisan but will not be neutral either just like Adjetey. But I have observed him for awhile now, he's trivializing the Parliament.
"It does not portray a good image, a good picture of the Legislature at all but having said that, he himself (Rt. Hon. Alban Bagbin), Mr. Speaker, you are talking too much . . . In the left, he's speaking. In the right, he's speaking. Everywhere! My goodness!! So, Alban Bagbin is not helping the situation," he stated.
He asked Rt. Hon. Bagbin to reduce what he believes are his unnecessary talks, stressing, "Mr. Speaker, less talk. Focus on the Speakership, what will grow the Legislature and don't show that space which will make people either tag you here or there''.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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My goodness, once NDC, always NDC, in that lack of competence is at play. This is clearly populist and attention-seeking, and it smacks of a lack of competence. Because the honorable Bagbin is a lawyer, and he is supposed to know better. I don't believe that his dress as a speaker of the parliament of Ghana is so loose and not regulated by a dressing code. As a result, any parliamentaria will wake up the next day and put on a fetish priest attaire for parliamentarial business. I'm not against modernity or reforms, be they traditional or what have you. There is a civil and legal way to go about it, because we are not in a Banana Republic.
Hahahaaaa, all these would have been avoided if NPP and it's leadership had put their ears on the ground prior to the 2020 general elections. When party supporters tell you they don't want a particular candidate, they have good reasons for saying so. If you refuse to listen to them they will go ahead and do what they want. The president should remember that NPP supporters voted for him to be president, he didn't vote for them to be eligible to vote in elections. How come a party in opposition in 2016 with little or no resources could win 169 seats out of 275 to form a majority in parliament. Now in power for 4 years same party's MP's reduced to 137 to the extent that both parties have same number of seats. If the independent MP for FOMENA were to pay the NPP back with their own coin looking at what the president said on his campaign tour of fomena ' any NPP member who decides to go independent is NOT a true NPP person and that he can't work with such a person ' was anything to go by the NDC would have been the majority party in parliament now. We have reached a stage in our politics such that even the president will have to watch his words. If you have a party whose leadership thinks they know all this is what happens. Even in power NPP is becoming unattractive under Akuffo Addo. Kufour's elephant had big ears and listened a lot. Akuffo Addo's elephant equally have big ears but fails to listen, at best it will hear but won't listen. The Ghanaian voter is becoming aware that he/she makes politicians who they are so you can't bluff them. If they tell you they don't something stop it, if you insist they kick you out. This particular NPP is not like the Kufuor one. They better use the remaining 3 years to see him for tutorials if not they may not even get 35 % votes in 2024. See ,2016, Akuffo Addo (53.3), John Mahama (44.8) .2020 Akuffo Addo with free SHS, free water and subsidized electricity, creation of 6 new regions (51%), John Mahama (48%). Akuffo Addo 2 % down, John Mahama 4% up. If this is not enough warning for NPP, i doubt if they will ever learn again. You can't break the 8 with this kind of leadership, NO.