This, he believes, will help deal with corruption that may arise in an attempt by a President and political sponsors to redeem investments made after gaining power
“Where we are going as a nation is not sustainable. We are getting on a very slippery route in terms of monetizing our politics. Both Parliamentary elections and Presidential elections. As a matter of fact,
my personal preference is with the Westminster type where the Prime Ministers are more accessible to us.
“In terms of spending, they spend far far less in getting themselves elected from the constituencies and that function to satisfy patrons is much less, and with that they will be able to deal with corruption.
“Then again, because the Prime Minister is a member of Parliament, peer review should tell you that you can’t be a Prime Minister when I know that before you became a Prime Minister you had only one house and four years after you have ten houses. My friend where did you get it from?
He was speaking at a public lecture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology on the theme, ''The constitutional review'', the perspective of a legislator.
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