We must start new Parliamentary chamber one way or the other – Baako

Despite calls for Parliament to abort plans to build a new 450-capacity chamber, the editor in chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper believes Ghana needs a proper legislative space.

Abdul Malik Kweku Baako Jnr said while Parliament may be compelled to put the current plan on hold, it does not take away the need for the country to have an edifice of such nature.

“When these issues come and they are thrown out there into the streets, no politician of administration wins that battle, the masses win because people play on the key boards of people’s emotions, it becomes an emotive matter and nobody is ready to listen.

“When Nkrumah was building the job 600 there was agitation in this country, there were people who opposed to it….the same thing happened when Jubilee House was put up.

“In my view, of courses because of the public uproar, I see people putting this thing on hold but I am saying that one way of the other we must start with this project,” the veteran journalist said on Joy FM’s news analysis programme, Newsfile, Saturday.

 

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