The Member of Parliament (MP) for Manhyia South, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has admonished government to take urgent steps in provide maximum security for MPs.
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Protect MPs to prevent ‘costly’ by-elections – Opoku Prempeh
He said the cost of replacing an MP is higher than the cost of replacing a Cabinet Minister.
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This, he said is because the cost of replacing an MP is higher than the cost of replacing a Cabinet Minister.
“The cost of replacing an MP is probably 10 times more than the cost of replacing a cabinet Minister because you have to go and do a by-election and ask all governments the cost of doing a by-election. Yes, we need general security…but the security of the MPs must be discussed for the general good of Ghanaians.”
Speaking on Joy FM’s News File, the Manhyia MP stated that “in my short while in Parliament, not less than seven MPs have been attacked in the bosom of their bedrooms which easily could have ended up in murder.”
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He said: “A female MP was attacked by five armed robbers in her bedroom; Gifty Klenam; Benita Owusu Bio was sleeping on the bed when armed robbers entered his bedroom, Asiamah has been robbed two times, Sorogo has been robbed, Bia West MP has been robbed, even Bediameh was shot at so for how long will we give this excuse that we hear that we need general security.”
He questioned by the executive and judiciary have adequate security except the legislature saying, “all arms of government, why do you neglect one?”
Dr. Opoku Prempeh explained that the only reason why MPs don’t have security is that “in our constitutional dispensation, the youngest of all the children are Parliamentarians. Military rule or not, the executive arm of government has continued and they have controlled all the state resources and security.”
“The Judiciary has continued even in the coup era…so MPs are relatively very young and so our have not been factored into the state calculation.”
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