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Parliament should avoid shoddiness

The paper carries on its back page a story titled "Parliament should avoid shoddiness". According to the paper Parliament?s way of passing bills have been described as betrayal of shoddy which in some cases have ?dubious democratic validity.?

The paper quoting from a lecture by Prof. E. Gyimah-Boadi of the Political Science Department of the University of Ghana at a public forum in Accra, criticised

Parliament for its inability to initiate legislation and limiting itself to the prompting by the executives.

It said the functions of the over-sight committee in Parliament is greatly inhibited by votes that go strictly along party lines on nearly all issues.

Prof. Boadi the paper said noted that Parliament also suffers from habits of subservience to executive authority, a situation which reflects the prevailing authoritarian culture in the house.

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