While speaking on Pure Morning Drive with Kwame Adinkra, the member of parliament for Manso Nkwanta Constituency; George Obeng Takyi has showed his support for the motion seeking to amend the constitution so that a speaker of parliament shall be elected amongst members of the house.
According to him, this will help solve the current controversy before the house. Parliament has recently faced hurdles especially after Ghana’s apex court ruled to allow Deputy speakers vote while presiding as speaker.
“Kwame, I will support any legislation to elect a sitting MP as Speaker of Parliament. You can’t say because Bekwai MP is presiding as a deputy Speaker, the people that he represents do not have a say in the issue under discussion. It doesn’t work like that anywhere and auger well for our democracy.
“l think the Speaker of Parliament being a parliamentarian will end the debate once and for all even though this current dispensation looks good, the complexities make the practice difficult,” Obeng Takyi told Kwame Adinkrah on Pure FM
