The Chief Executive Officer and President of the Institute for Liberty and Policy Innovation, Peter Bismark Kwofie has remarked that Members of Parliament should stop promising their constituents infrastructural development.
“MPs are voted into power to make laws and not to build infrastructures”, He said.
Mr Kwofie’s comment comes on the back of an attempt by angry artisans to assault the MP of Suame for failing to fulfil his promise to them on completing a road project in the Suame Magazine Industrial Hub.
It would be recalled that the artisans in Suame last Friday blocked the highway and demonstrated against the MP and the government for not ensuring that the road was fixed.
Mr Kwofie in an interview with Spice 91.9 FM, condemned the action of the artisans and said MPs are not responsible for undertaking infrastructural works but rather the Assemblies.
He resorted that, community members should channel their complaints at the District Assembly, and added that common fund is supposed to support the Assemblies in a quest to develop the Municipality.
Mr Kwofie further disclosed that it is unlawful for MPs to receive common funds because there is no accountability rendered on the part of the MPs.
” Common funds given to MPs is basically to support scholarship schemes for brilliant students in the various constituencies.”
Mr Kwofie, moreover, called for reforms on common fund received by Members of Parliament.
