Salam Mustapha has given a shocking revelation about the Members of Parliament which may form part of the reasons why some have decided to leave the House.
Ghana's House of Parliament will in January, 2025 see the exit of some senior members as 18 long-term law makers have declared their decision not to contest their seats again.
The 18 Members of Parliament are on the side of the New Patriotic Party; it is also rumored that some Parliamentarians on the political divide, particularly the National Democratic Congress, are also planning to follow their NPP colleagues.
The NPP MPs who will not join the next Parliament include the Majority Leader and MP for Suame, Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu who has served in the House for seven terms, First Deputy Speaker and MP, Bekwai, Joseph Osei-Owusu with four terms, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, Assin Central with six terms, Joe Ghartey, Essikado-Ketan (five terms), Samuel Atta Akyea, Akyem Abuakwa South (four terms) and Dan Botwe, Okere (four terms) among others.
Contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM's morning show "Kokrokoo", Salam Mustapha, the National Youth Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party, revealed that most of the MPs depend on "pressure pills" in their daily living.
He explained that the MPs receive so much pressure from their constituents and Ghanaians at large that by the time they leave office, they are worn out and due to the amount of pressure on them, they have resorted to taking pills to steady their nerves.
"What happens in the course of service when the pressure comes to take everything away from you and leaves you virtually with nothing?", he rhetorically asked.
"When you go to the House of Parliament, a lot of them are running on pressure pills because everyday they wake up to demands...Any time you will see a former MP, you don't see them in a state that they are happy", he stated.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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If they like make them drink poison sef Uzless people who only seek to enrich themselves at the expense of developing the whole country. Ghana with all the resources look at the way the country is. After steeling out money they go to Europe and Dubai and come back to brag about how nice the place is. If their leaders were as uzless and corrupt as you will they make the place nice for you to go on vacation? Fire burn dem all!
Nobody forced them they knew the salary and decided to contest, they spend more on campaigns than their whole term could ever pay them in terms of salary so obviously they have to be corrupt or very wealthy. The younger ***barred word*** are coming to their thing, I fear their gree more than the old folks,
@Kuus, your prescription is very toxic. Your fixation is the V8 and exgratia . This engenders the corruption which is sinking the nation. That would then mean they have just 4 years within which to steal all the money he/she can get. The focus is not longevity but character. Someone with character can achieve far more in 4 years than an ediot who occupies the space for over 16 years.
The more resson why we should be advocating for only 4 year term for Ghana's MP's. After 4 years you take your V8 and exgratia and leave the scene for another person to come in. Can you imagine the number of families that will their son or daughter as MP with it's attendant V8 and exgratia? They can even make it " after a person from this village becomes an MP, the next village will take their turn after 4 years. This is one surest way of curbing the menace of MP's taking " pressure pills" and alleviating poverty especially in rural areas.
Yeah, that's what you get from being dishonest. Voting-buying in this country just sucks and we seem to turn a blind eye to it as if it is not a big deal. This goes to feed the appetite for galamsay and the collective destruction of our environment with devastating consequences for all of us. We don't even have the common sense as a nation to stop this.This country is so sick.