Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, has entreated his fellow legislators to take advantage of the New Year to reconnect and reconcile with one another to engender development in the country.

According to him, for Parliament in particular, they did not begin on a good note in 2021, and could not end on a “good note” either. This, he explained, is all traceable to misunderstanding.

“At the heart of the understanding is the possession of the law, our understanding of the law and I think that if we [parliamentarians] allow the law… affection for one another to bond us together, we will come to some determination that we are addendum… I hope and pray that this New Year will declare us, would pressure us into a new plateau which then would afford us the development that all of us wish for this country”.
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu

The Suame legislator emphasized that when both sides of the House allow the law to work, “we will be able to come together” by ending all the feud that happened in Parliament in the past year.

Following this, he called on Ghanaians to engage in a serious introspection in the lives they led in the past year 2021. This, he noted, is due to the fact that as a people, we have failed in some form as humans in various aspects of our lives.

“The birth of Jesus Christ represents the era of God’s reconciliation with man and the occasion of the birth of Jesus Christ, which ushers us in the New Year. Therefore, my prayer and my pleas and indeed my wish is that all of us, as individuals and collective do serious introspection. We have fallen out even with ourselves, we have fallen out within our nuclear families with one another, within our community, within the churches that we worship, the mosques, within the political parties and across to members of other political parties”.
Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu

Religious bodies urged to pray for parliamentarians

Meanwhile, Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia urged religious bodies to pray for Members of Parliament to prevent chaos in the House.

Speaking at the St. Peters Cathedral Minor Basilica church in Kumasi during the December 31 watch night service, Dr Bawumia urged Ghanaians to keep the President and lawmakers in prayers.

He noted that this would ensure the needed wisdom and fortitude to govern the country is granted.

The Vice President also stressed that could minimize the instances of chaos on the floor of Parliament if Christians make it a duty to remember the MPs in their intercessions.

“Pray for the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, for the Lord to grant him the wisdom to properly govern this country to ensure development. Pray for peace in the country. Pray also for our Members of Parliament so that there wouldn’t be chaos on the floor of the House. We need peace in Parliament. I hope the parliamentarians here have heard it”.
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia

Prior to this, the Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Abdul Kweku Baako, revealed that the MPs’ ‘dishonorable’ behavior discredits Ghana’s image on the international front.

“The institutional integrity and the corporate integrity of Parliament is at the brink. What happened on January 6, 2021 and what happened recently is completely unpardonable. Legislative hooliganism, if you like, it’s completely unacceptable”.
Abdul Kweku Baako