SHAME PARLIAMENTARIANS: THE CASE OF GHANA

Fellow Ghanaians,

I can recall with alacrity a point in time in my wretched and fruitless life in this ‘pigeon hole’ called Ghana where leaders are satisfied by seeing us scratched our butt just to extract less than $1 for survival, when asked by my JHS teacher about what I will like to be in the future. My ecstasy runs wild and I hurriedly said a ‘member of parliament’. Some teachers, doctors, lawyers, nurse, civil engineers and ‘farmers’ etc.

I settled on MP due to what their work entails, how they have to work for the common weal of the poor people, make good laws to regulate the decent life of the people and to thoroughly scrutinize all bills, public transactions, and documents before they become binding on the ordinary man who walks on the street in his tattered clothes.

With the number of years that the institution of Parliament has been with Ghanaians it usefulness was only felt from the 1957 to the 1998.

Today’s Parliament can be termed in the political nomenclature a ‘rubber stamp’ just
endorsing almost everything that comes it way. In the recent past, we have witnessed Parliament passed certain public documents and denounced them among others. The issue of the infamous Ex-gratia is a case in point. Our Members of Parliament have only resort to self served ‘gods’ who are arrogating much power to themselves to the chagrin of the people who voted for them.

These are the very people who had to beg the people for a vote, dole out money to the people because they know they will only serve themselves and their family members in the House.

I am disappointed in the current parliamentarians who I see as shameless, embarrassing, and visionless ‘moron’s who just go about appropriating, and dispossessing the few cedis of the poor to get more money to satisfy their egoistic passions.

The Kuffuor-led-NPP administration should not escape this sharp criticism for his contribution in deepening the ‘rubber stamp’ nature of our national “parliament” and for ensuring a wholesale of Ghana Telecom and One touch to Vodafone Plc. I pray for God’s mercy upon them all for their insensitive and dehumanizing tendencies and for creating a bleak future for the youth whose education is manipulated by politicians to satisfy their individual whims and caprices.

If there is anyone or institution that all Ghanaians should be mad at, it is the institution of Parliament-the legislative arm of government now the ‘money gamblers chamber of the country’. People like Bagbin, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, and Sena Dansua among others are fine parliamentarians but they are getting more degenerated than ever before.

Let us say a big shame to all parliamentarians in the country. SHAME ALL PARLIAMENTARIANS. YA BRE MO.