Accra, Sept 20, GNA – Mr. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament has bemoaned the high turnover of Members of Parliament (MPs) under the Fourth Republican Constitution of Ghana.

“By the tenure of the Sixth Parliament (of the Fourth Republic), I was the only remaining MP from the first Parliament in the House,” the Speaker stated in his presentation at the 2024 Alumni Lecture of the University of Ghana.

“As at now, there is none, since as a Speaker, I am no longer an MP. The only survivor from the first 61 MPs from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Second Parliament is Honourable Osei Kyei–Mensah–Bonsu, who has also voluntarily opted out of the House.”

The lecture, which was organised by the University of Ghana Alumni Association in collaboration with the University of Ghana, was on the theme “30 Years of Parliamentary Democracy: The Journey Thus Far.”

The Speaker noted that in the 1996 elections, only 69 of the 200 MPs in the First Parliament returned to the House and that 112 were returned from the Second to the Third Parliament, following the 2000 elections.

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