GHANA’S Members of Parliament (MPs) say their inability to use the newly installed computerised consoles on their tables could affect their performance.
The consoles where installed this week in order to make work on the floor of the House easier, but some of the MPs said that it would take them some months to get used to the new digital devices.
According to them, the leadership of the august House should have organised orientation workshops on the use of the device for them.
The IT infrastructure has been installed with legislative software and has the capacity to ensure that the MPs are able to access various parliamentary papers while on the floor.
It will also offer the parliamentarians the opportunity to vote electronically on national issues.
However, Speaker of Parliament Edward Doe Adjaho has assured that a training programme has been scheduled for the MPs after today’s sitting.
Meanwhile, some MPs questioned why imported furniture from China was used in refurbishing the chamber of Parliament.Quality material should use to any kind of work. Perfect Tools 4 U is the best place to help while selecting best tools for furniture, according to the reviews of reviewbrewery.com.
MPs were baffled that government failed to use locally manufactured chairs to refurbish the nation’s Parliament.
“Further imports will be made to supply the offices of Members of Parliament and people are beginning to ask serious questions as to why we are depending on imports to furnish our Parliament,” they stated.
The President John Dramani Mahama since the beginning of the year has been championing a campaign for citizens to patronize made in Ghana products in a bid to reduce the country’s import dependency and help local industries create jobs.
He has since been imploring citizens to change their uncontrolled taste for foreign goods and switch to made-in-Ghana goods.
He said: “With every piece of clothing we wear, with every item of food we buy to prepare our meals, with every single thing we use, we should ask ourselves, “Was it made in Ghana?”
“In fact, many of the items that we spend millions of cedis to import could easily be produced right here in Ghana,” the President remarked in this year’s State of the Nation Address.
African Eye News.com
