NPP youth in Madina has called on the area Member of Parliament (MP), Francis Xavier Sosu to ‘humbly’ report himself to the police for interrogation.
A statement signed by their organizer; Michael Fordjour urged the lawmaker to stop his ‘hide-and-seek’ games with the law enforcers.
According to him, his MP is giving the consistency a “bad name” – something he said will not be tolerated by the youth.
“As a youth in Madina who always desire to promote a good image of the constituency, we are worried, disturbed, upset and ashamed of these developments involving our MP. We believe our MP should have known better when it comes to the law than what we are witnessing now.” A portion of the statement read
Below is the full statement
We, the youth of the Madina Constituency in the Greater Accra Region, note with great concern the recent development in the country involving our Member of Parliament (MP), Hon Lawyer Francis Xavier Sosu.
If we recall, our MP has dominated the news headlines recently about a matter involving the law and our MP. In the said development, Hon Sosu is alleged to breach the law and has been invited by the police for investigations.
Ironically, the police have used all appropriate means including writing to the Speaker of Parliament of the Republic of Ghana to release Hon Sosu to assist in investigations. According to our sources, all these means have been futile. Hon Sosu has refused to submit himself and assist the police in the investigations.
As a youth in Madina who always desire to promote a good image of the constituency, we are worried, disturbed, upset and ashamed of these developments involving our MP. We believe our MP should have known better when it comes to the law than what we are witnessing now.
Apart from the fact that he is a lawmaker and hence must be the first individual in the constituency to respect the laws he has sworn to craft, he is also a Lawyer which we believe should put him in a position to know better in respecting and abiding by the laws of the state.
Madina is one of the noble constituencies in the country with people of high repute who respect the law of the land. It is therefore disturbing to note that the person representing the people in Parliament is subjecting the laws of the country into disrepute.
We, the youth of Madina Constituency, retraite our point that we elected Hon Sosu to be part of the country’s law making body for the interest of La-Nkwantanang Madina constituents and to serve as an agent of development for the good people of La-Nkwantanang Madina.
We don’t expect our MP to dominate the headlines with issues that have no material benefits and developmental focus to his constituents. We don’t expect him to dominate in issues that put the image of the constituency in a laughing stock.
We wish to state unequivocally that if our MP has no respect for the laws of this country, then he has no business to be in Parliament. He must give way for individuals who have respect for the country’s laws to represent us in Parliament.
We, therefore, call on our MP to willingly submit himself to the police to allow the law take its course and also save the image of the good people of Madina Constituency.
Lastly, we want to send a word of caution to Hon Sosu to desist from flouting the laws of this country. Failure to do so will compel the youth of Madina Constituency to demonstrate against him to register our displeasure for the bad image he is creating for the constituency.
We hope our call to the MP will be headed to as soon as possible.
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Michael FordjourMadina Constituency Youth Organize