Prof. Ephraim Avea Nsoh, a former Upper East and West Regional Minister, is admonishing assembly Members of the various Metropolitan Municipal and District Assembly in the country against compromisinh themselves by accepting bribes to endorse the recently nominated individuals for the position of Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives.
Confirmations of MMDCE nominees in recent years have been riddled with controversies with allegations of bribery of assembly members to approve nominees topping conversations.
In one instance, a nominee was in 2021 caught on camera demanding monies he had paid as bribes for his approval be returned to him after members rejected his nomination. In another instance same year, assembly members of the Cape Metropolitan Assembly returned bribes they allegedly received from a nominee whom they had rejected twice.
Prof. Avea Nsoh is, however, hoping the assembly members will not allow themselves to be compromised this around.
Speaking Monday on the State of Our Nation, Prof. Avea Nsoh says such acts derail the efforts to strengthen democracy and the decentralization system.
He is calling on assembly members to respect themselves and desist from such acts as it negatively affects development.
“The system is already so bogus and it’s so monetized, and I suspect this will happen. And I want to urge all assembly members by this means, that look, respect yourself. That 200, 500 you’ll take, it’s not that that will make you what you are. You can get better things by just being who you are, and having your respect.
There’s a place where you can get money, but not those kind of cheap money.”
He is calling for the naming and shaming of individuals who will often want to pay their way through.
