The Minority in Parliament has criticised the leadership of the Majority Caucus, accusing it of failing to improve the welfare of its members and questioning the government’s credibility on job creation.
The Minority argued that a government unable to adequately cater for the needs of its 189 Majority Members of Parliament could not be trusted to deliver on its broader employment promises to the Ghanaian people.
Contributing to the debate on the Appropriation Bill No. 2, 2025, on Thursday, December 18, Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, described the government as a failure, alleging that some Majority MPs were compelled to use commercial vehicles to attend parliamentary sittings.
“They also said they were going to create one job with three shifts. A government that cannot take care of the many jobless youth who are looking for jobs, a government that cannot take care of its 189 members in this chamber,” he said.
Mr Afenyo-Markin further claimed that backbenchers on the Majority side were struggling and had been rendered ineffective, arguing that such circumstances undermined the government’s job creation rhetoric.
“The backbenchers in this House are suffering, and you say you are going to create jobs. When your members have been rendered redundant and cannot go back to their constituencies, you say you are going to create jobs,” he stated.
He challenged the Majority Caucus to prioritise the welfare of its own members, stressing that their well-being was a leadership responsibility.
“The Majority should take care of its own backbenchers; they are your MPs. It is not enough to come here with 189 MPs, and you cannot take care of them,” the Minority Leader added.
He further questioned the government’s commitment to prudent spending, citing the large number of appointees at the Presidency despite the appointment of 60 Ministers.
“The minister for public sector reforms has been rendered redundant and jobless. She is just at the Jubilee House. The minister in charge of special initiatives is also just there doing nothing, and he is being paid salaries doing nothing.
“…They said they were only going to appoint 60 ministers, but there are many other government appointees,” he added.
