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Meet the worst MPs in Ghana's Parliament

"73 MPs were absent without permission, a clear violation of article 97(1)(c) of the constitution. 28 MPs never absented themselves without permission.

The survey showed that out of the 19 MPs, 16 MPs of the National Democratic Congress and three from the New Patriotic Party never spoke in Parliament.

Former MP for La-Dadekotopon Nii Amasa Namoale, Sarah Adwoa Safo of Dome Kwabenya and the former Deputy Central Regional Minister Queenstar Pokua Sawyerr 16.98%, were also listed among the worst performers in the report.

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The worst performers are Evans Paul Aidoo who scored 11.50%; Dr. Nii Oakley Quaye-Kumah 17.09%; Kennedy Ohene Agyapong 18.29%; Dr. Mustapha Ahmed 18.60%.

MP for Old Tafo, Anthony Akoto Osei was ranked as the overall best MP with a total score of 94.12%. James Klutse Avedzi 93.39%; Joseph Yieleh Chirech 92.21%; Papa Owusu-Ankomah 92.17%; and Alexander Afenyo-Markin 91.03%.

The report stated, We verified the completeness of our dataset by comparing our cache of data to a list of Parliament’s sitting days obtained from staff of the Parliamentary service. On each sitting day, three documents are produced namely, the Hansard, Order Paper and Votes and Proceedings. Consequently, for each date on Parliament’s calendar we have access to three primary documents.

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“We verified the accuracy of this data set by confirming that each document bore the official seal of Parliament, followed the pattern of Parliament’s formatting and was marked as having been produced by the Table Office or the Hansard Office respectively. Odekro’s Content Manager and Research Assistant both verified each documentary source of our data," Odekro said in a statement.

"We therefore assigned a weight of 40% of total score to attendance and 60% to the contribution score.

"Our rationale is simple. An MP’s presence in Parliament is practically of no effect if he or she does not contribute to deliberations in the house. MPs who are both present and contribute should therefore normally be ranked better than MPs who make regular appearances in Parliament but do not contribute to the work of the house."

It stated only 52 MPs or 18.9% of the 275 MPs contributed amendments to the over 81 bills which were approved by Parliament.

"NPP MPs made an average of 199 statements over the 4 year period; 33 statements more than NDC MPs (166 statements)."

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