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Our criticisms not meant to destabilize gov't - Minority Leader

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  • Yaw Mensah 10 years ago

    Shame on Ghanaweb on Sam Jonah story. Why is Ghanaweb running away from getting viewers' comments on that story only? Now we all know that Ghanaweb chickens out when it comes to stories on powerful men. What about the poor, d ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    for decades all powerful or eminent Akans have been smeared , beaten and jailed without trial , for once the brave ghanaweb have tried to put a wrong right and you complain ?

  • The Mask 10 years ago

    There is a place where you can be sure that you would find a representative (MP) from every part of Ghana year round gathered together to deliberate on the future and the current state of this country. Where is that? Parliame ...
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  • Ali 10 years ago

    MP;s who do their paliamentary work and call for the overthrow of an elected are dojng that in the interest of Ghana. Strange

  • Allottey 10 years ago

    Parliament has to grow a backbone
    When you oppose the government open the issue up and explain.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    Exactly so, Mr. Osei Kyei Mensah-Bonsu. After all, that's what democracy is all about. But, unnecessary and sometime truculent criticism couple with unfounded allegations doesn't equate responsible criticism here in your sent ...
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  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    Who is this idiot called Kyei Mensah? You are in Upper East with only two or three Npp members from the Upper East sixteen constituencies and you are telling them to keep their members in Parliament and not to vote them out b ...
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  • Ben 10 years ago

    You don't give this speech of lets keep our members in Parliament because of experience when you are the minority.

  • Visionary 10 years ago

    PLEASE PLEASE YOU ARE NOT MAKING NO SENSE.
    ALL YOU ARE SAYING IS THAT ALLLOWED ME TO STAY EVEN IF I AM NOT DOING ANYTHING FOR YOUR CONSTITUENCY, INSTEAD ENRICHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.

  • WIAFE GRANT 10 years ago

    Change that military style constitution. PRESIDENT HAS TOO MUCH POWER.

  • APOLLO T 10 years ago

    NPP! PLS, DON'T CHIKEN OUT. GO ALL THE AFTER THIS CORRUPT REGIME. MAHAMMA AND HIS CRONIES DON'T DESERVE ANY DECORUM

  • Allen Iverson 10 years ago

    Even if you like the proposal as opposition you oppose and after everything is explained then you agree.

  • Baby Bole 10 years ago

    Corrupt NDC

  • Baby Bole 10 years ago

    MAHAMA USA IS COMING

  • BOAKYE 10 years ago

    Parliamentarians and their speaker are all afraid of Mahama. They don't realize the power they have right now.

  • TKD 10 years ago

    and practice another.
    Are they saying the insults they heap on the president are all there to put him on his toes?
    Tell us what good it is for their kind in Kumasi to call for " arab spring" in a non arab country like Ghana ...
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  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    why call anyone "Honourable" anyway? This puts them above the law and further entices them to steal without impunity. BE BOLD to acknowledge that

  • GHANANI 10 years ago

    It is because you most often indulge in destructive criticisms.Show me once when the NPP has made one constructive criticism against the government.You even want the government to be overthrown by the army and want the IMF an ...
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  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    The NPP and the general public,including yourself, would like the IMF and the World Bank to stop giving loans to the government because those organizations are unable to account for how these loans help the average Ghanaian a ...
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  • BE WISE 10 years ago

    So b'cos u hv formed yr own opinion abt all prezs. as thieves, no one shd rule Ghana right? The fact tht one or two ppl in govt. misbehave & steal govt. money doesn't mean it is the Prezs. desire tht ppl shd steal frm govt. B ...
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  • Yaw 10 years ago

    Kyei mensah bonsu, please stop wasting our time with such unnecessary explanations. Go ahead and criticize the government if you think what you are doing is the right thing. Late President Mills suffered a lot you guys to the ...
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  • Nenebi Kuma 10 years ago

    My first visit to the Ghana parliament I had nothing good to write home about.I think before parliament goes out to educate the citizens on their role they must first instill discipline in the House.there is too much childish ...
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  • CONSCIENCE 10 years ago

    Experience parliamentarians should continue to be in parliament, abi? These guys don't care at all about this country. All I see from parliament is greed and greed. Cars, per diems, unnecessary travels and stealing. Why are y ...
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  • Vima 10 years ago

    The opposition is weak in parliament. Mr. Mensah-Bonsu and they rest have all been comprised. They are paid by NDC to look away

  • CARDINAL 10 years ago

    I believe that or he would not have been indirectly campaigning for Ndc. You are telling people in a region where Ndc holds 13-3 majority in terms of parliamentary members not to keep changing parliamentarians because of exp ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 years ago

    Minority what?? You are all bribe takers. Where is the BMW. Another thief in the making!!! NPP should watch out for this man!!!! He has succeeded in making the opposition role ineffective to the benefit of the NDC.

  • BE BOLD 10 years ago

    We do this for the interest of the development of the nation. Our constructive criticisms are, therefore, not meant to destabilize the government as perceived by others,” he stressed.

    Yes keep the government on it's toes ...
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  • Asampanye 10 years ago

    Mr Minority Leader am sorry experience cannot be bought and an expenditure incurred to workshop and orientate new MPs are worth spending. This would broaden our democracy. No MP has a permanent seat and this attitude has made ...
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  • BOAKYE 10 years ago

    This is a new day in Ghanaian politics.Opposition need to speak up.
    They need training to know their responsibility.

  • ASANTE SUPREMACY 10 years ago

    Get the NDC out now. We cannot allowed ourselves to be ruled by people who should be our slaves.

  • CONCERN GHANAIN 10 years ago

    IS MENSA BONSU TELLING US SHAMEFULY THAT HE AND ONLY OLD MPS TO REMAIN IN POWER BECAUSE OF WHAT HE TERMED AS EXPERIENCE, AND THE SAME GROUP OF NPP MPS WILL TURN AROUND THAT NO JOB FOR GRADUATE AND SO ON AND ON, THIS IS TOTALL ...
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  • Osei Yao 10 years ago

    NPP CAMPAIGN TO WIN THE NORTH IS DOOMED TO FAILURE BECAUSE IT ASSUMES NORTHNERS DO NOT KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CRITICISM AND SCANDAL MONGERING- THE PAST TIME NPP OPPOSITION.

  • Djake Koku Salif 10 years ago

    There's nothing wrong if we want to destabilize the NDC. We hate them and they are liars led by Mahama.They came to power on the back of lies and we will continue they do not succeed.Very soon we will hoot at Mahama on May da ...
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  • Ugly Akufu Addo 10 years ago

    Npp critise unnecessarily

  • Djake Koku Salif 10 years ago

    Who ever you are, your Mahama and mother who are fools who get their breasts sucked by donkeys

  • Ugly Akufu Addo 10 years ago

    He should give way to Alan Cash

  • oppong london 10 years ago

    after all bad government like john mahama,s needs destabilization,ndc has no clue about governance,they need to be thrown out from politics.

  • K K 10 years ago

    in NPP time you took Bribes from thief Kuffour to sign deals at the expense of the Nation and now you are talking sense. This means opposition is the best for NPP.So stay there for the next 20 years. We thank GOD,AMEN

  • kojo 10 years ago

    The words you use, the tactics you deploy and the distortions are what define your goal. We all know that when the NPP comes out to criticize the NDC, it is about score political goals. and truth be damned.

    Walk the talk ...
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  • NDCenemyofNPPGhana 10 years ago

    I see parliament as a forum for antagonism and pulling each other down. Opposition opposes government in power to mess up and lose power only to repeat the cycle. Black people are not capable of uniting and developing! Democr ...
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  • Abeeku Mensah 10 years ago

    There are good customs in Ghana that must be maintained. There are also foreign customs that we may adopt to supplement our own. But there is wisdom that our lawmakers must bring to bear when acting as legislators. Just becau ...
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  • awali 10 years ago

    YOU IN THE MINORITY HAVE THE RIGHT AND DUTY TO STAND UP TO THE VOODO ECONOMIC AND FAILURE OF THE MAHAMA MAJORITY GOVRENMENT WITH NO FEAR

  • Ozzie Blake 10 years ago

    Why is Ghanaweb preventing us from commenting on the liars they broadcasted on a noble and honest man like Sir Sam Jonah?

    Is this fair? Idiots running this website. You do such a foolish thing and hide behind the screen.
    ...
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  • Agbee 10 years ago

    The Minority Leader's call on electorates to maintain old faces in Parliament by voting for them, simply because they experience, is neither here nor there. This is just the exhibition of egoism that characterises the attitud ...
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  • ASTECH 10 years ago

    ASTECH ON A TIME BOMB (CORRUPTION GALORE)
    As stated above, the Ada Senior High Technical school is on the verge of attracting a massive demonstration from its students, the society members and some other town folks who have ...
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