Senior Political Science Professor at the University of Ghana Prof. Ransford Gyampo has reignited his thrust for public funding of political functions.
This, merged with a ceiling of expenditure by general public place of work hopefuls would assistance to check out monetisation of elections in the place, an incubator of corruption, he reported.
Talking to Joy FM’s Tremendous Morning Present Tuesday, Prof. Gyampo observed that the funds should really not come exclusively from the point out neither should really it go to unfastened teams parading as political parties.
“I am referring to an arrangement that lets equally the state and the community to contribute monies into a fund to finance the pursuits of not amorphous political groupings but political events well worth their salt that meet a specified stringent condition,” Prof. Gyampo mentioned.
He additional that a monthly bill to the effect has even been drafted following engagements with the Atta-Mills administration in 2010 but it never saw mild of working day.
Addressing the ceiling of marketing campaign expenditure of MP, Presidential and other political aspirants, Prof. Gyampo stated a legislation which will impose punishments of up to and which includes disqualification would solve the show of opulence on campaign trails.
He also referred to as for superior schooling on even the present regulations and better implementation structures to remedy the problem of vote shopping for.
‘Vote buying’ in NPP Primaries
His responses stick to the just finished NPP parliamentary primaries which was characterized by popular studies of reward providing by MPs and MP aspirants in a bid to impact voting of delegates.
National Communications Officer of the opposition NDC Sammy Gyamfi, at a push convention on Monday, stated the NPP Primaries was rocked with vote buying.
In the Assin North Constituency, Eric Amankwa Blay took back some 250 bicycles he shared to delegates prior to the elections soon after he failed in his bid to seize the party’s ticket.
He secured 44 votes as towards the incumbent MP Abena Duruwa Mensah who polled 389 votes.
The defeated aspirant who spoke to Adom Information explained the motive guiding the distribution of the bicycles was for marketing campaign reasons.
He explained for that make a difference, failure to endorse his candidature suggests you really don’t like the bicycle.
In accordance to him, the device price of the bicycle is ¢300. Aside from the bicycles, Mr Blay statements to have shared ¢200 and ¢500 to each delegate and constituency executives to endorse his candidature but failed to do so.
“I’m not using back the income but as for the bicycles, I require them back,” he stated.
