The Africa Centre for Parliamentary Affairs (ACEPA) has called on the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to use its majority in Ghana’s next parliament to pass the critical bills that will improve governance in the country.

The Executive Director of ACEPA Dr Rasheed Dramani in an interview with Accra-based Citi FM said even though the difference between the majority and minority is huge he expects the NPP to do well especially because electorates are becoming discerning.

“You will think that a Parliament with such a huge majority is not good for an emerging democracy particularly from the point of view of checks and balances but we are not living in normal times. The mandate that is handed to the New Patriotic Party is a mandate of oversight and accountability.”

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“If you look at the numbers in Parliament from that point of view you will think that the NPP and the numbers that they have in Parliament, they will do well to use those numbers to make sure they prosecute an agenda that will ensure that some of the outstanding issues for instance, the Freedom of Information law and a number of policy issues that have been lingering for years will be passed.”

The NPP in the seventh parliament of the fourth republic will hold 170 seats in the house as compared to the NDC that will hold 102 seats in the house.

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Before the current parliament went on recess the speaker of the house Edward Doe Adjaho expressed optimism that most of these bills will be passed.

However this did not happen. Many civil society organisations and individuals have asked that these bills are passed to help make governance easy. But President Mahama often responded by saying that he cannot force the legislatures to pass bills into law.