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Ag prez saga: Adjaho hasn’t committed treason – Sam Okudzeto

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  • BBC NEWS! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    Those lawyers were just like NANA BINLADDO, they have NO Law certificate

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  • kayi 9 years ago

    When people don't have food to eat, Ghanaians are wasting their energies on oath swearing. Oath is useless if the one who swears cannot deliver!

  • Guatemala 9 years ago

    To BBC NEWS,always i am reading your comments and all your comments is out of track so if you dont have any contributions to add better stop it,And stop insulting elderly people who can be your father or mother.Better pray t ...
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  • Kwadjo Awusu-Bantama 9 years ago

    I agree with you 100% guatemala.I will however be glad if you advice the others also to stop insulting Pres.Mahama and rather criticise his policies.Remember what is good for the gander is also good for the goose.

  • Concerned 9 years ago

    Common sense has hopefully prevailed. Donkey mahama should be the one who needs to be impeached for being the most corrupt African leader ever

  • ALEX 9 years ago

    This insults at Mahama can not get your old Nana Ado to power, just find ways of convincing Ghanaians that Nana have solution to their problems rather than insulting the president. Even Nana himself does not know how he will ...
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  • Concerned 9 years ago

    Alex, you really think that Donkey is the best leader for Ghana then clearly you are just as stupid as mahama and the rest of the guys who voted for him. Nana Addo is the most insulted political figure in Ghana and even thoug ...
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  • Kodjo 9 years ago

    But nana Addo is not my
    President. When you insult the president you insult ALL of us.

  • kyebi 9 years ago

    n who you.?

  • Yayha Mohammed 9 years ago

    Animalistic CONCERN,u still have not convince me not to vote for Mahama again but for Nana Addo.I am Ndc and share the view that mahama has dissapointed me and the entire nation as a whole thus wished to vote for Nana Addo bu ...
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  • John Agbo 9 years ago

    well said, yayha. you hit the hammer right on the nail.

  • kk 9 years ago

    U just demonstrated that the common sense u were talking abt is actually not common cos u dont hv any urself going by what u said

  • BASTARD RAWLINGS 9 years ago

    TRUE...PRESIDENT PEPENI-MAHAMA IS MORE THAN A DONKEY...AND HE HAS PROOVED IT BEYOND ANY REASONABLE DOUBT

  • Yayha Mohammed 9 years ago

    Yes Mahama might be a pepeni but he is human,Rawlings might be a bastard but he is equally a human.Keep up the good work.You promoting your akan superiority over other tribes very well.Good for you.But i wonder why it has not ...
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  • Nii Noi Dowuona 9 years ago

    What a country we live in. Every person with 'half baked' knowledge wants to be an authority and significant and continue to spew nonsense!. It looks like it is a state where the most violent, loudest and the ignoramus claims ...
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  • Nun 9 years ago

    I agree with you.

  • akia 9 years ago

    shame on to you kweku bakoo

  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    I though both Articles 60(11) and 60(12) become applicable only when the president and vice- president become incapacitated simultaneously in times like when afflicted with debilitating illnesses, coma, when under anaesthesia ...
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  • KY 9 years ago

    I think this NDC govt. is cursed. Everyting about them spark controversies. What at all this so call vice prez is doing at india all this long. And talking about the clueless Mahama is he going for prayers at vertican? oh naa ...
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  • Lord Tennison 9 years ago

    The clause suffers from ambiguity.We should seize on the opportunity to subject it to a microscopic scrutiny next time amendments are made, for the purpose of clarification.
    If Jerry Rawlings has not been tried for treason ...
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  • ohene 9 years ago

    The speaker's actions were wrong, his behaviour is disrespectful, and his argument false. He should be sanctioned, by parliament, and most not act that way in the future, or the CJ goes to the next in line to administer the o ...
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  • KWABENA 9 years ago

    The time that these people used to argue about taking the oath or not is longer than taking the oath. Does he have to pay money out of pocket to swear the oath of office? Oh My Ghana, when are we going to change?

  • Majesty 9 years ago

    The name Kwabena usually represent understanding but it seems like you don't get this one. The speaker has sworn in so anytime both the president and VEEP are outside the oath that the Speaker sworn automatically becomes effe ...
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  • Concerned 9 years ago

    If the vice needs to swear just once then the people without understanding should maybe explain the difference. The real question is, does it matter?

  • Kwabena 9 years ago

    Please do not insult people you do not know. My take is not who is right or wrong . The most it may take to swear in is about 30 munites . My point is use your time and taxpayer money wisely . The law requires that he swears ...
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  • John Mahama 9 years ago

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  • Slayve, Dansoman 9 years ago

    Let the gods of democracy impeach the speaker. We are tired. Ghanaian so called intellectuals cannot fix a button on a shirt. All they do is wait patiently on the fence for their opponents to fail to dot an "I" or cross a "t" ...
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  • Dr Robert K Glah 9 years ago

    All Honourable men and women are wrong

    Refusal to take and subscribe the oath set out in relation to the office of the President is one offence. Refusal to hand over to the Prez or the Vice on return to Ghana is another of ...
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  • Majesty 9 years ago

    Will you agree with me that if that is the case then the sitting President should swear in again when he takes over from the Speaker?

  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    That is my argument too,that clause in the constitution is confusing and needs to be scrapped.ASAP.
    The swearing in of the Speaker before he acts should just not be there it is a hopeless clause,the constitution should just ...
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  • JH New York 9 years ago

    Don't entangled yourself,please.
    Mahama is the sitting President.Adjaho is not the President but could be elevated to the Presidency in absence of the President and his Vice in the Country.And that elevation is Void when an ...
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  • chief 9 years ago

    Will the illiterate lawyers now learn. Kwame Akuffo and Co what do you say now. And may I ask if the President goes on a few hours trip outside the jurisdiction does it mean he would be unable to carry out his functions throu ...
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  • gilbert 9 years ago

    this is call substance of interpretation and not the legal form.

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  • Nun 9 years ago

    Once again, we are going to spend time on issues that are completely unnecessary to pursue. We are always a step behind time and get our priorities in wrong order. Reason? Check the definition of a useless politician.

  • Ras Bo @ London 9 years ago

    Take time to learn and ponder before coming out. Stupidity at its best. every one says they are lawyers..

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  • hategbanti 9 years ago

    yakamewo. instead of u pple commenting on the subject u re insulting Mahama.

  • KWAME-BELGIUM 9 years ago

    Sam, tell your uneducated NPP people.

  • Guatemala 9 years ago

    KWAME,People travelling to learn so please speak like a best traveller next time without insulting brother......

  • Bad Governance 9 years ago

    confused man.jumping from country to country. if you really know you duty as president, would not be out all the time.learn. from Mills.The man of action,not vain promise.

  • Nana Yaw 9 years ago

    The President and Vice-President should not be out of the country at the same time, one would think.

  • seth 9 years ago

    Pls to solve the problem let go yo the supreme court for interpretation. This edition says this . Another the opposite will not solve the problem.

  • Moses Zinazie 9 years ago

    Thank God we have learned lawyers like Mr Sam Okodjoto to interpret the constitution i do appreciate you my childhood friend

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    You are very right it's sad that seasoned lawyers are making so much noise about this useless thing..Readers pls refer to the sections of the laws on Oats and you will simply understand this.. A person can asserts to an Oath ...
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  • appiah 9 years ago

    That is the stand of a matured lawyer.
    There are too many tro-tro lawyers in Ghana, and that is part of our problem. Our priorities are screwed up,how can we waste precious time on such trivia's when 50% of our children cann ...
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  • JH New York 9 years ago

    I beg to differ from ur honor Sam Okudzeto on that School of thought that it's not necessary for the Speaker of Parliament to be sworn in to act as President for the second time,having been Sworn in,in recent past.
    I think ...
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  • Ohene Djan 9 years ago

    The speaker needs to swear the oath of office as acting prez because his term ends as soon as either the vice president or the president returns. This is why whenever a president is re erected he takes the oath again.

  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    Why is he the "acting" president? Is the president ill or incapacitated? Is the president not an international assignment as president of Ghana?

  • Failed Government 9 years ago

    Okudzato's belief in the school of thought is not inscribed in the Constitution and it is unacceptable and illegitimate.

    The constitution does not state that once sworn in as acting president, it is enough to carry the Sp ...
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  • STONER KOBYLYNTON 9 years ago

    All these nonsense of swearing in of Mr. Adjaho as acting or interim President in the absence of the President and his Vice makes no iota of sense. This democratic system of government was imported and as such we have to com ...
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  • Nii 9 years ago

    I think our constitution was written based on our cultural values as Ghanaians. When you dad is going away he gives instructions to your mom and when she is also leaving home she will certainly leaves instructions to the elde ...
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  • Akwasi Afrifa 9 years ago

    This is that simple and even the any constitution should be similar. When the president and vice resume work that automatically renders the speaker powerless, si any time the president not vive travels the speaker has to be ...
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  • Wogbe 9 years ago

    Okudzeto thank you for your common sense

  • KofiSammy 9 years ago

    GHANA REFUSING TO AGREE TO DISAGREE. LIFE IS ALL ABOUT OPINIONS AND NONE SHOULD HOLD SWAY OVER THE OTHER BUT ONLY REMAIN RELEVANT AS AN OPINION. THIS IS COMMONSENSE