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October 20, 2024
Majority Leader, Alexander Kwamen Afenyo-Markin has faulted the Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Alban Bagbin for not following due process in his declaration of four seats vacant in parliament.
The decision of the Speaker has since brought some friction between the two sides with each claiming to be in the Majority, especially after the Supreme Court ruling on the ex-parte application filled by Afenyo-Markin.
The Effutu lawmaker, Alexander Kwamen Afenyo-Markin points out that despite the ruling of the Speaker, he still referred to him as the Majority Leader and pointed out that if Mr. speaker had allowed the matters in issue to be properly determined, “we will not have been where we are today”.
“My question is why the rush. What has become of the Haruna Iddrisu petition? He has rendered his petition Otiose is like the Haruna Iddrisu petition will have led to a due process being followed”.
“When did a Speaker allow a statement to metaphors into a motion for him to rule on?
He questioned why Joy FM did not address this yesterday. “Is it that there is no provision for what is to be done when a statement is made. Did what Ato Forson do meet the requirement of a statement under Order 93?”
Any written document, Bible, Quran, any holy book including our constitution should be read as a whole; the rule of automaticity does not really operate as a means to an end, due process is always a preferred vehicle to achieve a means, he added.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com