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MP calls for amendment of the constitution
Accra, Aug 31, Ghanadot/GNA
- Alhaji Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, Member of Parliament for
Asawase, has called for the amendment of Ghana’a
Constitution to enable the leadership of political parties
to find replacements for their Members of Parliament (MP)
who die before their tenure of office ends.
“The struggles and campaigns that ensue soon after the death
of a Member of Parliament does not allow us to give a
befitting burial and funeral to someone who has sacrificed
his life for his constituents”.
Mr. Muntaka who spoke to the GNA after raising the issue in
his tribute to the late Doris Seidu, former MP for Chereponi,
on the floor of Parliament said tension, bitterness and
rancour that mounted in Lambussie, Kumawu, Bimbilla, his own
constituency, Asawase, and Akwatia were all testimonies to
his assertion.
He explained that the amendment of the Constitution should
be such that only the party of the deceased MP would look
for his or her replacement through thorough screening,
instead of the current situation where an election was
organized for all parties to field their candidates again
for the vacant slot.
The Asawase MP said the by-election system was creating
enmity among contesting parties instead of uniting them to
pay their last respects to the dead.
“If we continue that way, it would look like we are rather
more interested in their replacement rather than
sympathising with the bereaved families”, he said.
GNA
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