Minister for Parliamentary Affairs Hon Osei Mensah-Bonsu has stated that the people who are against the provision of security protection for parliamentarian’s are either standing on envious or jealous assertion.
According to the the Majority Leader, work of the Members of Parliament is critical to course of the nation as such it is very important for the state to make provision for security to protect the MP’s.
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“We should know all fingers cannot be the same yet we have people who perhaps informed by envy or jealous or whatever say ‘Members of Parliament are not different from us,”he noted.
Adding that:”They are our representatives so leave them’. People should recognize that in the perching order, MPs come before minister so if ministers are offered protection why not MPs? We have DCEs who are offered protection. In the perching order, DCEs don’t come anywhere near MPs yet nobody raises issues when DCEs have to be offered protection but for MPs, no! They are ordinary citizens. What informs that?” he quizzed.
