Professor Ransford Gyampo, a Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, has said the Supreme Court is concerned about the non-representation of the 4 vacant MPs while SALL has been denied representation for 4 years.
According to Professor Ransford Gyampo, the Supreme Court knows the people of SALL have been denied representation for four years but are not concerned about that, just concerned about the non-representation of the four vacant seats for just 2 months.
Speaking on Joy FM Super Morning Show, he said, “This is a simple matter, yesterday after listening to them, what I just said was that well-meaning Ghanaians should be worried about why our Supreme Court is concerned about the potential of non-representation of some people for less than two months, while the SALL people have been denied representation for almost four years and this is not the matter that the Supreme Court is not aware of, the matter was sent first to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court said the case should be sent to the High Court”.
“The High Court sat on the matter it has been go and come adjournment for three years, and I am told after three years that the court is saying it has no jurisdiction, and we are all here watching”, he revealed.
Professor Gyampo reiterated, “I was quite surprised to hear how the Chief Justice was pontificating on this matter of representation or the potential for denying people representation while at the same time, she knew that others have been denied representation for almost 4 years and I said that look maybe we live in an era where the Supreme court no longer cares about public sentiment and opinion about how it goes about its activities.
Today, the Supreme Court is currently hearing the case of Speaker Bagbin which seeks to overturn an earlier ruling that temporarily stayed his declarations of four parliamentary seats as vacant.
