Akatsi (VR), Dec. 24, GNA - Mr Doe Adjaho, Member of Parliament (MP) for Ave-Avenor, on Friday raised issue with the trend in Ghana for some people who want their MPs to be replaced for no reason other than that they had been there for “too long”.

He said experience was important in parliamentary work and the longer an MP stayed the better it was for the quality of legislative work.

Mr Adjaho, who is also the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, was speaking to the Press at Akatsi after filing his nomination papers for another bid as MP for the area for the sixth term.

Traffic on the Aflao-Akatsi Highway was brought to a standstill as a teeming number of people thronged the NDC office amidst drumming and dancing to witness the filling of the papers.

Mr Adjaho, who later addressed a durbar to mark the commencement for campaign for his bid, said framers of Ghana’s Constitution, as elsewhere in the world, avoided placing a limit on tenure in parliament for good reason.

He said in America, Australia and other advanced democracies some MPs had been Parliament for between 35 and 40 years and thus became pundits of their systems.

“In Ghana the experience of some MPs helped in averting some major parliamentary flaws, which could have been detrimental to the country’s interest,” Mr Adjaho stated.

He said he was hopeful that President John Evans Atta Mills would be retained in power in 2012 because of the “visible good works” he had done so far, and indications that he had a lot more to give.

Mr Adjaho said the NDC Council of Elders was fervently working to minimise divisions within the Party to make it stronger for victory in 2012.

He stressed, however, that all parties had their internal differences. GNA