‘Contribute to bills in Parliament’
Ghanaians, particularly those in the academia and industry, have been urged to regularly submit memoranda to Parliament whenever a bill is advertised.
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The submission of such written records, notes and reminders would enable MPS in the various committees and sub-committees working on bills to factor the opinions and ideas of interested parties into it before passing the bill into law.
The MP for Ablekumah Central, Mr Theophilus Tetteh-Chaie, made the call when he chaired the inauguration of the Regent University Student Parliament in Accra last Friday.
He bemoaned the lack of public interest in submitting memoranda when bills to be passed into law were publicised in the media for the public to submit memoranda.
“When the bills come to us, some of us in Parliament don’t have the expertise and knowledge in that particular field; so it behoves experts and knowledgeable people in that particular field with peculiar interest in that bill to submit memoranda to us before we pass it into law, which would be binding on all of us,” he stressed.
He entreated other students in other tertiary institutions to emulate this fundamental leadership role being promoted by students from the Regent University College, while urging school authorities to give students the room to experiment with leadership from the top, since they were the future leaders.
The MP later presented books and documents on parliamentary proceedings in Ghana’s Parliament to the school’s SRC President, Jude Eastwood Apedo Selorm.
The President of the Regent University College, Reverend Professor Emmanuel Kingsley Larbi, observed that Ghana’s leadership had failed to chart a visionary path for the youth and unborn generations to follow.
According to him, it was, therefore, incumbent on the youth and students, in particular, to start preparing towards taking the mantle from current leaders by learning and practising the fundamental roles played by the various organs of the government.
He said the mock parliament by the student body demonstrated that the youth were ready to understudy their predecessors in state institutions and take up the mantle from them.
The event witnessed the inauguration of a mock parliament comprising a speaker and his deputies, chief justice, student’s representing majority and minority caucuses, as well as ministers and deputy ministers in session during the opening day at the school’s auditorium.
