Partner parliament to reverse declining public trust in democracy, governance

The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has urged the media to deepen collaboration with Parliament to assistance reverse the worrying diminution successful nationalist spot successful the nation’s antiauthoritarian and governance institutions. 

“The 2024 Afrobarometer information connected Ghana shows that 73 per cent of Ghanaians similar ideology implicit immoderate alternative. Yet, restitution with however ideology works has fallen to 49 per cent, down sharply from 78 per cent successful 2017.

“The appraisal of spot successful governance institutions revealed that members of Parliament, ministries, departments, and agencies, and assembly members were the slightest trusted among the 14 institutions evaluated,” helium said. 

Media dialogue

Mr Bagbin said this astatine the opening ceremonial of the maiden Public Financial Management (PFM) Media Dialogue held successful Accra connected Monday, November 24, 2025.  

It was connected the theme: “Parliament, The Press and The Purse: Building accountability done dialogue”.

The dialog brought unneurotic concern editors and elder fiscal and economical reporters from large media houses, alongside Members of Parliament and unit serving connected the Finance and Economic Committees of Parliament.

It besides included cardinal governance stakeholders whose enactment connects nationalist fiscal absorption to citizens’ knowing and participation.

Trust gap

Mr Bagbin maintained that a meaningful concern betwixt Parliament and the media was indispensable to closing the spot gap.

“Accountability becomes genuinely effectual lone erstwhile Parliament and the property interact openly, stock insights, situation 1 different constructively, and yet fortify each other's work,” helium emphasised. 

MPs mandate

The Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, lamented that Parliament had failed to afloat enforce the accountability standards it acceptable nether the Public Financial Management Act, 2016 (Act 921).

He urged MPs to rigorously analyse fiscal documents, interrogate figures and request compliance from the Executive.

For his part, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP for Suame, John Darko, said robust nationalist fiscal absorption was indispensable for equitable improvement and indebtedness sustainability.

He called for stronger collaboration among Parliament, media and citizens to heighten scrutiny of budgets, amended transparency and marque fiscal accusation much accessible.

The Clerk to Parliament, Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, urged the media to prioritise issue-based reporting that promotes bully governance, transparency and nationalist development. 

International partners

A Senior Public Sector Specialist astatine the World Bank, Smile Kwawukume, said the dialog was a important instrumentality for strengthening partnerships that beforehand accountability and transparency successful the nation’s economical governance.

The Head of Trace and Economic Resilience astatine the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), Juliet Ernst, underscored the request for Parliament and the media to enactment jointly to guarantee fiscal subject and rebuild nationalist confidence.