Branding parliament useless 'hurtful' – Osei-Wusu

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• Richmond, Maryland 8 years ago

  Parliament is indeed useless! Tell me Mr Politician, what have you achieved over the last 25 years of parliamentary democracy. MPs have amassed incalculable wealth whilst the ordinary man on the streets continue to wallow in ...
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  Parliament is indeed useless! Tell me Mr Politician, what have you achieved over the last 25 years of parliamentary democracy. MPs have amassed incalculable wealth whilst the ordinary man on the streets continue to wallow in abject poverty. You have failed to provide housing, quality healthcare, proper education, clean environment, jobs, lawful n just society n yet you think you're useful. Tell me how many of your kids attend public schools or attend public hospitals! The only beneficiaries of our parliamentary democracy are you the politicians. After all kuffour produced a hotelier in his son and Rawlings produced a Doctor in his daughter, after making sure she never attended the JSS system that he instituted. Thieving politicians, get ready for the UPCOMING SOCIAL REVOLUTION which will hit you like a TSUNAMI.

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• Offinso Kokote Asamoah 8 years ago

  Parliament has a proven record of being rubber stamp.we don't need any education to know this. There no body in parliament who qualify to be called a marketing. The pattern of motion on issues is always the same; majority alw ...
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  Parliament has a proven record of being rubber stamp.we don't need any education to know this. There no body in parliament who qualify to be called a marketing. The pattern of motion on issues is always the same; majority always vote majority, whilst minority vote minority. Where did Sidney go wrong then if he allude that they dont read before passing laws. Parliament should get their ass to work and gives us a break

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• Offinso Kokote Asamoah 8 years ago

  ....nobody qualifies to be called a maverick, not marketing

  ....nobody qualifies to be called a maverick, not marketing

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• K Asumadu 8 years ago

  Running your own business or working in the public sector successfully and effectively has nothing to do with being useful or effective in Parliament. Because of greediness and lack of patriotism, MPs put their party and self ...
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  Running your own business or working in the public sector successfully and effectively has nothing to do with being useful or effective in Parliament. Because of greediness and lack of patriotism, MPs put their party and self-interest ahead of that nation's. Indeed they do not read documents and rush through legislations especially when they've been influenced by lobbyist and companies who are interested in what is being passed as law.
  They are only good at suppressing free speech with threats of hauling individuals who dare tell the truth, before them! They will never change because they are set in their corrupt ways and it's time somebody tell them the truth and never back down!
  If Osei-Owusu feels hurt, he should advise himself and his colleagues to change their ways. They are supposed to pass laws after careful and adequate scrutiny with the nation's interest at heart, not for their parochial interests, but that's what we see more often than not. It serves all of them right because they are what Caseley-Hayford just said, useless!!!!!

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• AB 8 years ago

  What Mr. Casley- Hayford said is a general perception held in public, and if members feel otherwise, it points to they having to earn the kind of respect they aspire to. Looks like any criticism not favouring the criticised i ...
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  What Mr. Casley- Hayford said is a general perception held in public, and if members feel otherwise, it points to they having to earn the kind of respect they aspire to. Looks like any criticism not favouring the criticised is always construed to insult. Please, let's learn to develop and move forward?

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• Covfefe 8 years ago

  In reality its truthful. It's useless.
  Look Mr. You guys see yourselves as super humans, you are being paid as an mp, you take sitting allowances, giving offices and what it takes to work with. Mps common fund, Ghana Aids c ...
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  In reality its truthful. It's useless.
  Look Mr. You guys see yourselves as super humans, you are being paid as an mp, you take sitting allowances, giving offices and what it takes to work with. Mps common fund, Ghana Aids commission gives you funds for Aids campaigns, you take bribes from institutions to pass laws, you create troubles in communities, you force police officers to release culprits who are eligible for prosecutions, your self interest is more than the national interests, you run after small girls and buy them cars and apartments. Everything in parliament is partisan unless it concerns the your welfare. You have all the priviledges to steal without control and lie to the marrow. Some of you have street's hawkers, hawking empty words from one media house to the other making heroes of yourselves in emptiness.
  You use manipulation and conniving control to bully citizens. What are you honourables?
  Repent and push the country forwards.
  The country's resources is at your disposal let same opportunity be given to teachers or nurses. God is watching

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• Charles 8 years ago

  Dignity is earned. So MPs just work to on simple

  Dignity is earned. So MPs just work to on simple

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• Charles 8 years ago

  Dignity is earned. So MPs just work on it. simple

  Dignity is earned. So MPs just work on it. simple

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• G. K. Berko 8 years ago

  As much as decentralization is crucial in implementing most effectively policies that directly reflect idiosyncrasies of individual Regions, there is the need for a Central Government that would, at least, coordinate among th ...
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  As much as decentralization is crucial in implementing most effectively policies that directly reflect idiosyncrasies of individual Regions, there is the need for a Central Government that would, at least, coordinate among the Regions to present a unified understanding of basic Laws and Regulations that all in the Nation need to abide by. But we cannot afford to decentralize too much to the point where each Region becomes a Nation within a Nation.
  
  Casely-Hayford is typically an ultra-Capitalist hag whose views support an exaggerated, Utopian Laisser-faire in which such decentralization would be the best environment to practice it. With the background that he has, it is understandable why he leans so steeply that way. But for most people with very much poorer background, the collective aspect of the State is necessary to give them a little basic help to stand on their feet. That is the reason why I, and some others, believe our best way forward is providing a mixed Economy that graduates into deeper Capitalism with our closely monitored progression of lessening family deprivation and higher rate of quality Education that enhances entrepreneurship and employability, as found in Singapore, and even in China.
  
  That phenomenon is the subtle but crucial omission from the prescriptions by our various self-acclaimed Economic experts for our social and economic cure.
  
  The precipitous plunge into abject individuality Capitalism that ignores any need for help to the poor masses, and focuses only on the privileged few to amass all the wealth for some trickle-down voodoo Economic effect has been the main impetus for our chronic corrupt system.
  
  When Education, for example, is strengthened with easier access to quality tertiary Education by all, people become empowered to guard their rights and prevent the kind of crony capitalism we see prevalent today. Political power then also becomes diffused among the general population, rather than packed into the restrictive clubs of few elites.
  
  What Casely-Hayford and his ilk fail to recognize is that the ineffectiveness of the Parliament has more to do with the attitudes of the MPs than the intrinsic nature of the System.
  
  Therefore, even if the national Parliament is dissolved into Regional Parliaments as he suggests, but the attitudes of the MPs of those Regional Parliaments are the same, nothing better would manifest from that change.
  
  What we may have to do is probably amend our Constitution to give more powers and autonomy to our District and Municipal governing authorities. In that case, each Region or Municipality could have greater say in what they would prefer as a priority for implementation in that area. So, at the beginning of every year, for example, the Regions could submit their budgetary needs to the national Parliament for funds to implement their various projects. The Municipal and District Councils could be designed to be directly accountable to a Regional Parliament or Congress or Council, whatever we would end up calling that Regional authority. The members of the Regional body would then be the ultimate authority to ensure policies and projects are implemented to the quality standards that match the value of the money expended, for example.
  
  The Regions would then functionally be like States in a Federated Union. And they would not have to be dictated to by the National Parliament as to how resources are distributed in their localities.
  
  All said, the problem we have with our Parliamentary productivity is more of the moral commitment the MPs bring to the duties they have been sent to the Parliament to do than just the physical structure of the august body.
  
  Long Live Ghana!!!

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• KB 8 years ago

  Of course they are useless. Ghanaians hate the truth and the gentleman is right on point. Anyway who the fuck are they that one can't called them useless just because you are in parliament.

  Of course they are useless. Ghanaians hate the truth and the gentleman is right on point. Anyway who the fuck are they that one can't called them useless just because you are in parliament.

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• Avis 8 years ago

  Osei wusu should be the last to comment on what Sydney said. Joe Wise is one of the corrupt guys in parliament. He has contributed to the bad name that parliament has today.

  Osei wusu should be the last to comment on what Sydney said. Joe Wise is one of the corrupt guys in parliament. He has contributed to the bad name that parliament has today.

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