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CJ, Speaker have been "constitutionally lawless" - Baako

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  • Don Blunt 9 years ago

    There is not much sense in taking the oath each time the Speaker of Parliament has to act in the stead of the President.

    Could (President)? Adjaho sack all these incompetent Deputy Ministers, and reshuffle the Cabinet?

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  • Andy 9 years ago

    It tells you that the CJ herself is clueless & knows nothing.There were competent & more senior judges but Kuffour appointed her.Even non lawyers have taken some of her decisions to court & were properly interpreted to favour ...
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  • justice 9 years ago

    Most of you don't understand the english language.The speaker did the right thing.If there's a president and doing his work outside the country and another is being sworn as president it means that the first president is bein ...
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  • Eric Jackson 9 years ago

    mr english man, are u saying u understand the constitution more than us? then kindly write a new one for us, because for now that is what the costitution demands from the speaker and he is not bigger than that. pls mind ur la ...
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  • YAKUBU 9 years ago

    According Article 60 (11) of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution: “Where the President and the Vice-President are both unable to perform the functions of the President, the Speaker of Parliament shall perform those functions until ...
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  • Foster 9 years ago

    Parliament has its own power. Members of Parliament do what they like.President does what he likes with no respect for the citizens.

  • YAKUBU 9 years ago

    And devolving that power to the Speaker of the House, when the President and the Vice-President are out of the country, and acting in their capacity as the President and Vice-President respectively, takes power away from the ...
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  • Rey 9 years ago

    The SC ruled that once they are outside Ghana the president cannot perform their duties effectively through the use of technology as the defendants contended. The SC based their decision on the fact that technology could fail ...
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  • YAKUBU 9 years ago

    The caveat in my estimation would be effectively. Did they seek an interpretation on the matter of effectiveness and performance via the use of technology, since there are other forms and medium via which they can perform th ...
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  • Ken Ntiamoa 9 years ago

    The President or Vice President, having left the shores of Ghana, does not imply that they are unable to preside over the country's affairs. Obviously, anyone acting on their behalf while away would have to consult them with ...
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  • LEARNING 9 years ago

    Absence of the President and his Vice should from the jurisdiction of the country, does not connote an inability to perform their mandate as enshrined in the constitution.
    Interpretation and Meaning ought to be given to abs ...
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  • WAITING HANGMAN 9 years ago

    Simple things are supposed to be simple. The President and the Vice are at work in the service of the country, even though outside. Why should we need an acting president and a vice in such circumstances when they can fully c ...
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  • Obed Adore 9 years ago

    The Constitution does not need amending. Rather people have to interpret it correctly.
    Since the president and vice are not indisposed and can and are still functioning in their respective capacities, both articles do not ap ...
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  • Kwame Dokyi 9 years ago

    What were the president and the vice president doing "OUTSIDE GHANA"?Could they perform those functions if they did not represent Ghana in those positions respectively? Does it go to reason that they still held those position ...
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  • Kofi Wusu USA 9 years ago

    NPP should stop coping the Republican party nonsenses

  • BOSS 9 years ago

    When a person is baptised it is for good, when graduated you are graduated for good,how any times will he always be needed to swear in? If he would be needed to swear in every time then after the first event the swearing must ...
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  • Close Observer 9 years ago

    When you are baptized it is not done to hold that position for someone until turns, it is your personal position until you decide not to be a Christian again. In the same sense, you don't study and graduate for anyone but fo ...
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  • Close Observer 9 years ago

    When you are baptized, it is not done for you to hold a position for someone until he/she returns, it is your personal position until you decide not to be a Christian again.

  • Shortman 9 years ago

    Let assume that a christian became a pagan.If he decided to become a christian again?will he be baptised again?

  • Shortman 9 years ago

    Let assume that a christian became a pagan.If he decided to become a christian again?will he be baptised again?

  • Lord Tennison 9 years ago

    It does not help to make a mountain out of a molehill.This is just a triviality,in my humble opinion.If Kweku Baako and Kwame Akuffo and others will expend their energies on the bedrock problems which,when solved,will drast ...
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  • Mama Rosina 9 years ago

    Laziness must not be allowed in the government. The laws of the nation must be followed else we embark on a dangerous road.

  • USMAN 9 years ago

    This is how far our useless university graduates have brought us.

  • CHE 9 years ago

    Why does this BAAKO noise maker think that people will take him seriously on technical and legal issues when its clear he did not do much of post secondary education? We prefer to listen to learned people on such issues and n ...
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  • Nii James Ammah 9 years ago

    Baako is no credible political pundit. His only access for all his foolishness which he tries to push down our throat is his newspaper which he uses as a means to tell lies and wanting the illiterate majority in Ghana to beli ...
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  • ohene 9 years ago

    The CJ is not on her game. Never have.

  • Slayve, Dansoman 9 years ago

    Lost soul. This Baako man is gradually but surely becoming irrelevant in discussions on the political matters.

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  • hajj salley 9 years ago

    Kwaku baako please let lawyers speak. The question is are you a lawyer?

  • Vak Luze 9 years ago

    Journalists who always critisize every thing in this country, what solution have they provide before?

  • NOBODY 9 years ago

    Kwame Akuffo says the Speaker committed treason, and that's the reason why Akufo-Addo should be sworn-in to act as President and Vice-President. When asked why Akufo-addo needs to act as President and Vice-President, Kwame Ak ...
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  • Eric Jackson 9 years ago

    The travelling is too much. not from this government alone but from the previous one too, aaaaaba, eye., the begging is too much and we cant even account for the proceeds. shame on us all.

  • Kofi 9 years ago

    Both the CJ and the Speaker are right this time.. Pls read the laws on Oaths and write about the challenges facing our country and stop wasting time writing nonsense.

  • Peekee 9 years ago

    THEY ARE TAKING US FOR A RID THIS NDC GUYS.

  • SAKARA 9 years ago

    Mr. Baako feel he knows what ever is happening in Ghana, that's not the best be'cos he knows very thing. That's how the Npp also feel thy know the LAW more than any body in Ghana

  • CORNEY 9 years ago

    This illiterate Kweku Baako is now a Constitutional Lawyer,he put himself in the shoes of that so called Lawyer called Kwame Akuffo who ignorantly said the Speaker committed treason as if treason is a traffic violation.
    What ...
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  • PK 9 years ago

    It's bcos of the coups of Rawlings that made this man think he knows everything in the world

  • Neutral Concerned Citizen. 9 years ago

    Lawyer are talking Kweku Baako is also trying to do here say.

  • PK 9 years ago

    It's only in Ghana that people like this guy will be paneled to talk on issues. What is his expertise? What background does he have on constitutional law? Thanks to Rawlings people like this have been imposed on Ghana. The Ch ...
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  • John Mahama 9 years ago

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  • Angel Braim 9 years ago

    What has kweku Baako n nana akuffo addo have in common? Both are DEDICATED wee/ganja/shish smokers...Their brains are toasted