The Executive Director of Parliamentary Network Africa, Sammy Obeng, has encouraged the media to begin naming and shaming Members of Parliament (MPs) who absent themselves from the house.
According to him, this will form part of the means to improving upon attendance in Parliament as MPs will be eager to be in the good books of the media.
“A lot of time we focus on those who are not doing well to the detriment of the others who are doing very good so going forward, one of the things we should start doing is to publicly name and shame those who absent themselves from parliamentary work…,” he suggested on Angel Morning Show on Wednesday.
The number of MPs attending Parliamentary sittings have dwindled over time which is indirectly affecting the work of Parliament.
While the members of the Majority caucus have been accompanying their colleague MPs and other Presidential aspirants for campaigns, the Minority have been boycotting sittings to attend court hearings of their embattled colleague, James Gyakye Quayson who is standing trial on criminal charges for holding dual citizenship.
This attitude, Mr Obeng thinks is inappropriate especially as the MPs swore allegiance to the Constitution and not to their political parties.
