The Minority in Parliament says it is considering impeachment proceedings against President John Mahama.
The NPP accuses him of orchestrating what they call an egregious constitutional breach that has left the country without an acting President.
According to the minority, President Mahama violated the 1992 Constitution, following the simultaneous absence of the President, Vice President, and Speaker of Parliament from the country without an Acting President being sworn in.
They noted that all three top government officials were abroad at the same time Jane Naana Opoku-Agyeman the vice president in the UK for medical treatment, and President John Dramani Mahama was also at the African Union Debt Conference in Togo. Speaker Alban Bagbin was also out of the country.
With all three officials unavailable Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo is also on suspension and is unable to step in.
Speaking in an interview with Joy News John Darko the Member of Parliament for Suame stated, “As people of Ghana, we must all fight against this act of the President. The problem is that at the time the President was leaving, the Speaker of Parliament had already left.
So when the President chose to travel, he knew—or at the very least ought to have known—that his departure would create a vacuum and constitute a breach of the Constitution. But Emperor Mr President decided, ‘I am the President and I can do whatever I like—damn the consequences,’ and left the country”.
He added, “Is that why we voted for the President—to violate our Constitution? We will keep bringing this up, and at the appropriate time, if we must invoke the impeachment provisions, we will do so. We will not sit idly by while the Constitution entrusted to us is violated without consequences.”
Meanwhile, the Acting Chief Executive of the National Petroleum Authority (NPA), Godwin Edudzi Tamakloe, has rejected claims that Ghana is experiencing a constitutional power vacuum.
Edudzi Tamakloe asserted that the architecture of Ghana’s government is functioning as intended, with institutional continuity fully intact.
Speaking on Face to Face on Channel One TV, he clarified, “I thought there were three – the Judiciary, the Executive, and the Legislature. Is the Acting CJ in Ghana? There is an Acting CJ. It is not personal. It is the office.
So as we speak, there is an Acting CJ of the Republic, and that is the reason we have three arms of government…What I can say is that there is no power vacuum. It does appear that the President is in the country,”
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