Review car loans to MPs - CPP

Mr Ebow Bentsi-Enchill, a leading member of the Convention Peoples' Party (CPP) has called on Parliament to reduce the car loans to be granted to Members of Parliament (MPs), from twenty thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars each.

Speaking at a reception organised by members of the Sekondi constituency branch of the party after a fund-raising rally at Sekondi, he said the MPs could use the cedi equivalent of ten thousand dollars to purchase a good car on the Ghanaian market.

He said since some MPs had not completed paying the car loans given them during the last Parliament, they should not be saddled with more loans.

Mr Bentsi-Enchill said though MPs must be made mobile to enable them to discharge their duties effectively, the state of the economy must be considered before deciding on the amount to be given them for the purchase of cars.

He called on Parliament to debate on the matter before action was taken on it to show that the current political administration was transparent.

He also called on Ghanaians to come out with concrete suggestions on issues discussed in Parliament, to which they held contrary views instead of merely condemning MPs.