President and Veep Out of the Country

President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra on Wednesday night for Paris, France, whilst the Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, left Accra on March 14 on a three-nation two-week investment tour.

According to the constitution:

(11) Where the President and the Vice-President are both unable to perform the functions of the President, the Speaker of Parliament shall perfom those functions until the President or the Vice-President is able to perfom those fuctions or a new President assumes office, as the case may be.

So, is the Speaker of Parliament, Ebenezer B. Sakyi-Hughes, now the "acting" president of Ghana? Probably not, because the President and vice can still perform their duties from abroad?

President John Agyekum Kufuor left Accra on Wednesday night for Paris, France, whilst the Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, left Accra on March 14 on a three-nation two-week investment tour.

According to the constitution:

(11) Where the President and the Vice-President are both unable to perform the functions of the President, the Speaker of Parliament shall perfom those functions until the President or the Vice-President is able to perfom those fuctions or a new President assumes office, as the case may be.

So, is the Speaker of Parliament, Ebenezer B. Sakyi-Hughes, now the "acting" president of Ghana? Probably not, because the President and vice can still perform their duties from abroad?