The Majority Leader in Parliament Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has slammed the minority for attempting to scuttle the cash for seat report before Parliament. According to him, some minority members are still hallucinating and yet to recover from the 2016 election defeat. The Minority in Parliament has on Tuesday stormed out of Parliament to avoid being … Read more
The Majority leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has described as unjustified the Minority’s boycott of the Appointments Committee sittings on Wednesday. According to him, the minority who claimed to be staging a boycott of sittings, turned up at the plenary of the House to partake in deliberations. The Minority members on the Appointments Committee boycotted the … Read more
Majority Leader, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, is confident the President Nana Addo’s appointment of 110 ministers and deputies to serve in his government will prove to be a good decision. According to him, the best way to evaluate the government is on the basis of how they deliver on their promises and not on the size … Read more
Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has justified President Nana Addo’s appointment of some 110 ministers including deputies, to serve in his government. According to him, the best way to evaluate the Akufo-Addo government is on the basis of how they deliver on their promises and not on the size of … Read more
Majority Leader and Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, has justified President Nana Addo’s appointment of some 110 ministers including deputies, to serve in his government. According to him, the best way to evaluate the Akufo-Addo government is on the basis of how they deliver on their promises and not on the size of the government. … Read more
Government will soon lay before Parliament, the necessary instruments that would give legal backing to the scrapping and review of some taxes, the Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has revealed. According to the Suame MP, the review or abolition of over ten taxes in the 2017 budget, will only take effect after approval … Read more
Government will soon lay before Parliament, the necessary instruments that would give legal backing to the scrapping and review of some taxes, the Majority Leader in Parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has revealed. According to the Suame MP, the revisiew or abolition of over ten taxes in the 2017 budget, will only take effect after approval … Read more
Majority leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has reiterated calls to create more space for women in parliament for the House to be responsive. He said to be in line with the Intra-Parliamentary Union (IPU) standards, an international organisation of Parliaments, Ghana needs to be “encouraging and deepening responsiveness of our parliament to have an all … Read more
In a vetting that has taken more than three hours for some nominees, Parliament made an exception for the Majority leader Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu who has been nominated as minister for Parliamentary Affairs. He completed his vetting in under 30 minutes – a record time for any of the 26 nominees. In a testament to … Read more
The Minority leader and Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency, Hon Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu has blamed the falling standards of our Parliament at the doorstep of the various Political Parties. Speaking on Daybreak Kapital with host Kombian Somtuaka,the ace legislator said “I will blame the Political Parties..You see the Modus of selecting Parliamentary candidates … Read more
Minority leader Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu has noted that the Electoral Commission’s ‘shocking’ disqualification of 13 presidential candidates is long overdue. Weighing in on the impact of their rejection, the Minority leader said the prospect of having at least 17 presidential candidates on the ballot paper is haunting. ‘Too many political parties, confuse the electorate’ he … Read more
Minority Leader Osei-Kyei Mensah Bonsu says he is scandalised that the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) report failed to establish conflict of interest allegations against the president in the controversial gift saga. He believes CHRAJ just took President John Mahama’s response to the allegations, hook, line and sinker and reproduced a conclusion … Read more
Minority Leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu says a petition that could lead to impeachment proceedings against President John Mahama over a Ford vehicle gift from a Burkinabe businessman is not a witch hunt. “I don’t have anything personnel against the president,” he told Joy News’s Elton John Brobbey in an interview. The Suame MP has … Read more