Quote: "In an interview with Joy News, however, Deputy Majority Leader, Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, who oversees business in the House, explained that Parliament needed more time to pass crucial legislation.
He mentioned the Financial Services Bill, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Bill, Integrated Aluminum Industry Bill and several others.
Mr. Mensah-Bonsu indicated that Parliament after the resumption of the last session had had 14th of November as the date for recess.
He said although there had been considerations of an earlier closure of Parliament, several other developments including the funerals of the late Speaker of Parliament, Peter Ala Adjetey, made a case for an extension." End of quote.
Hmmm, Ghana - eyeasem oo: asem ebaba debi ankasa! Well, let the deputy majority leader in parliament, Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu, remember one thing: by constantly railroading bills through parliament that benefit the crooks in the executive branch of government, but are inimical to the nation's interests, they are undermining an important democratic institution, parliament.
What they are doing, in effect amounts to driving the final nails into the coffin of Ghanaian democracy. Parliament, which is the branch of government that has suffered the most from past military interventions in the governance of our country, needs to be respected by Ghanaians, if we want democracy to thrive in Ghana.
A parliament that is seen by ordinary citizens as a rubber-stamp that exists merely for the convenience of the ruling political party, which makes up the executive branch of government, is ultimately doomed to fail in its task of protecting the rights of ordinary people and helping to sustain Ghanaian democracy.
For, if ordinary people feel that parliament is subservient to the executive branch of government, which it is meant to have oversight responsibilities, on the people's behalf, over, in our system of constitutional democracy's checks and balances, it immediately loses its credibility, authority, and prestige - which is disastrous for any legislature, in any democracy, in this world.
The idea of the integrated aluminum industry is a lunatic one, at a time of global climate change - when we ought to hang on to as much of our nation's biodiversity as we possibly can: as it is an important contributory factor in enhancing our quality of life, in the landmass that makes up the territory of the Ghanaian nation-state.
It is sheer madness to tear down the Atiwa Mountain range upland evergreen rainforest, one of only two in our country, and which like all rain forests on the planet Earth, contains untold wealth in yet-to-be-discovered medicinal plants, worth bullions of dollars.
Those who have arranged to get parliament to rush to pass the Integrated Aluminum Industry Bill, will pay for their crimes against humanity one day for sure - as sure as day follows night.
They must not be surprised if one fine day, those who set about to bring to an end, the corrupt 4th Republic, in order to usher in a genuinely democratic 5th Republic (in which there will be clear separation of powers - and no member of the executive will sit in the legislature, thank goodness!), give them the 21st century equivalent of the June 4th 1979 "treatment."
He should also cast his mind back to the Kalabule era, prelude to the events of the June 4th military uprising, when the amoral and the greedy, controlled our nation: and acted with complete impunity - as the few powerful tribal supremacists who dominate his party so completely, now also carry on.
Where are all those once-powerful individuals from yesteryear - who sadly forgot that very wise Ghanaian saying: "No condition is permanent" at the apogee of their power, in the decadent period that presaged the events of 4th June, 1979?
When they are busy manipulating our democratic institutions because they too feel that they are invincible because they control our security apparatus, let them remember that others have walked this disastrous path too before - and suffered the consequences of their delusions of grandeur. A word to the wise...
It might interest the clueless regime of which he is such a prominent member that only just recently, a mushroom was discovered in the rain forests of South America, which, incredibly, produces most of the elements of diesel - and is said to be potentially worth billions of dollars: and could, in the future, perhaps herald a new green bio-industry for the region.
(Independent-minded and non-partisan readers who love mother Ghana, can see an example of what treasures rain forests the world over contain, in yet-to-discovered medicinal plants and other valuable plants from this link: http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-news-1/New-type-of-fuel-found-in-Patagonia-fungus-5717-1/)
Why deny this and future generations of Ghanaians the benefits of such treasures and the sustainable wealth-creation and green economy opportunities they bring in their wake - just to allow a few greedy crooks in government and the secret foreign partners in their opaque offshore joint-ventures, enrich themselves, for short-term gain - at the long-term expense of our nation and its people?
Why, are the governments of their neo-liberal lords and masters in places like Washington and elsewhere (for whose businesses they are seeking this economic equivalent of an abomination!), not working hard, day and night, to provide their nations' taxpayers' money to help revive moribund, once-powerful private business entities, in order to save their nations’ economies, as we speak?
So, why are they trying so desperately hard to be more Catholic than the Popes of global capitalism – who have all suddenly discovered the wisdom that state intervention secures national economies like nothing else, including “free markets”, does?
Hmmm, Ghana - enti yeawiaye paa enia? Hmmm, eyeasem oo: asem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!
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