THE Forum for Former Members of Parliament has held an awareness programme to sensitise students to the role of Parliamentarians at St. Theresa College of Education, Hohoe in the Volta Region.
The programme which attracted other participants from St Francis, Amedzofe, Peki and Dambai Colleges of Education, under the theme “The Role of Parliament in the Development and Sustenance of Democracy and Good Governance in Ghana”, was sponsored by the Parliament of Ghana.
The President of the Forum and a former Member of Parliament for Hohoe South Constituency, Mr Kosi Kedem, said the forum was formed two years ago and had a membership of 100 former MPs.
He said their objective was to explain the role of Parliament to especially students in tertiary institutions to demystify the establishment to them.
He said the forum had so far taken the message to Kumasi, Koforidua and Accra Polytechnics to explain what democracy meant, adding that democracy practised in Ghana, as prescribed by the 1992 Constitution was based on multi-party system.
Mr Kedem said Ghana’s democratic process had gone on uninterrupted since 1993 amid the numerous criticisms and challenges it had faced.
He was of the view that Parliament alone could not bring about democracy but it needed the assistance of the people in concert with the Executive and Judiciary with the support of the media and civil society.
A member of the forum, Ms Monica Attenka, urged women to work hard to win the votes of the people to enter parliament.
She disagreed with the idea that women should be given concessionary seats in parliament.
“They should fight hard to win the votes of the people to be able to enter parliament,” Ms Attenka said.
She told the students that they had the whole world at their disposal to be able to use their education as a spring board to go places.
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