Ghana: Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu Calls for Speaker of Parliament to Be Sitting MP

A former Majority Leader of the New patriotic party in parliament, Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, has called for changes to Ghana’s parliamentary system to require that the Speaker of Parliament be a sitting Member of Parliament.

Speaking on the issue with a Joy news journalist, he observed that Ghana’s Parliament is unique on the continent because its Speaker is not elected from among serving lawmakers.

He argued that the current arrangement risks producing Speakers who may be disconnected from the day…