NATIONAL ASSEMBLY THURSDAY, 14 MARCH 2019

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Ghana was very interesting country and their Parliament was certainly fascinating to observe and interact with, and really beautiful country and really welcoming host that we had there, and system however was not the same as ours, they use the presidential system, with the president chooses ministers, there is far less parliamentary oversight and accountability, than in a traditional Westminster system, but non the less we able to hack up some good tips.

One of the great things I think we took away from Ghana, particularly was the multiparty nature of the procedural...so they have speakers and they have presiding officers from across the political spectrum in the House and their experience is being that this turns to lead to lot less conflict within the House, if you got presiding officers that come from all political spectrum. The same applies to committee chairpersons...where there is a spreading of representation, to ensure that every single party was certainly the bigger parties that are represented in the House, actually feel that they have a meaningful role to play in the parliamentary situation.