Ghana had no prez on Wed, Friday... – Law Prof

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Kay 11 years ago

He couldn't have been sworn in three times this week. The law was made for man, not man for the law. Professor, please reason up.

He couldn't have been sworn in three times this week. The law was made for man, not man for the law. Professor, please reason up.
GH 11 years ago

WE HAVE EVEN A SWORED IN PRESIDENT BUT STILL GHANA IS IN MESS; WHY WASTING TIME ON AN ACTING PREZ:?

WE HAVE EVEN A SWORED IN PRESIDENT BUT STILL GHANA IS IN MESS; WHY WASTING TIME ON AN ACTING PREZ:?
Aikins 11 years ago

What different does it make with or without president mahama the value is the same.useless president we have

What different does it make with or without president mahama the value is the same.useless president we have
ZoRRo 11 years ago

We've had no leader for two years, fellas !

We've had no leader for two years, fellas !
CORNEY 11 years ago

Ghana had no president on Wednesday and Friday and so what,why he did not rush there to be the president for those two days?
The idiot should just give us a break.

Ghana had no president on Wednesday and Friday and so what,why he did not rush there to be the president for those two days?
The idiot should just give us a break.
The mask 11 years ago

I do agree that only airworthy airplanes must be allowed into our territorial airspace. I therefore support the decision by the GCAA to enforce an age limit on these aircrafts.

However the GCAA must not forget that many n ...
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I do agree that only airworthy airplanes must be allowed into our territorial airspace. I therefore support the decision by the GCAA to enforce an age limit on these aircrafts.

However the GCAA must not forget that many non-passenger Soviet aircrafts may exceed the stipulated age limit.
JIMMY 11 years ago

WHY WASTING TIME ON A ACTING PRESIDENT WHEN THE WHOLE PRESIDENT IS NOT FINDING THINGS EASY

WHY WASTING TIME ON A ACTING PRESIDENT WHEN THE WHOLE PRESIDENT IS NOT FINDING THINGS EASY
SGT ANANI FIADZOE 11 years ago

Even a moron would easily know that this idiot masquerading as a professor is blatantly wrong. Once a president you are always a president of Ghana. Thus Mahama was President of Ghana on duty to Burkina. This did not incapaci ...
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Even a moron would easily know that this idiot masquerading as a professor is blatantly wrong. Once a president you are always a president of Ghana. Thus Mahama was President of Ghana on duty to Burkina. This did not incapacitate him in his functions. I wonder if NPP foot soldier knows the circumstances that incapacitate a President. In fact he was performing one of his key functions off the shores of Ghana.

Of course there is the need for someone to stand in for him for some of the routine functions at home. But does that mean as he was performing his duties out of Ghana he was not president? If this is the kind of professors we have then I support the Boko Haram's philosophy that education is not good for Africa. People with knowledge in Ghana only use it to steal and spin for their political parties. So shame to "Prof" S. Kwaku Asare!!! We know that a tutor in a secretarial school can choose to call himself a professor.

Kwaku Asare, I will show you a professor when one is passing by!!!!
EBBY 11 years ago

It is very moronic on your part to suggest that because this opinion is coming from a learned professor, then he must be a member of NPP. Thanks for acknowledging the academic acumen of NPP members, as opposed to the uneducat ...
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It is very moronic on your part to suggest that because this opinion is coming from a learned professor, then he must be a member of NPP. Thanks for acknowledging the academic acumen of NPP members, as opposed to the uneducated members who form the bulk of your NDC party.
Having said that, I wholeheartedly agree with your opinion here. The clause in the constitution only applies when the president is incapacitated and unable to function. Not when he travels performing his constitutional duty outside the country. To me, once the speaker is sworn in as president, this action automatically voids the presidency of Mahama for that duration of time while he is outside the country because we cannot have two presidents at the same time calling the shots. It therefore becomes illegal for the traveling president to perform any duty as president from the outside. This is common sense, and does not need a consttutional lawyer to interpret.
NYANSA 11 years ago

Totally agree with you sir!

Totally agree with you sir!

Johan Dave 11 years ago

Brilliant, Ebby

Brilliant, Ebby
Thomas 11 years ago

Ebby, I believe your analysis that the authority of an incapacitated president is voided upon the taking of the oath in question is correct. I further believe, as you point out, that the President is performing presidential d ...
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Ebby, I believe your analysis that the authority of an incapacitated president is voided upon the taking of the oath in question is correct. I further believe, as you point out, that the President is performing presidential duties when he is on official business outside the country. Unfortunately, the Asare opinion disagrees with both of us (you and me), and with common sense. The Supreme Court has stupidly created an Constitutional conundrum. Certainly the wording of Article 60(11) - "unable to perform" - was intended to refer to physical or mental inability, not to geographical location, which makes the Supreme's 2003/4 ruling absurd; nevertheless, until judicially overturned or Constitutionally amended, their interpretation is the law and tragically, must be followed.
KT 11 years ago

So that means all these npp lawyers and sopporters are dead wrong about the situation. By the way it's only npp's who are adamant to make this useless thing an issue which it's not.

So that means all these npp lawyers and sopporters are dead wrong about the situation. By the way it's only npp's who are adamant to make this useless thing an issue which it's not.
Thomas 11 years ago

Sgt Anani Fiadzoe, your reasoning is sound, that the President is still President regardless of his physical location, BUT we must be cognizant of the quoted Asare ruling, that for the purposes of Article 60(11), when both th ...
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Sgt Anani Fiadzoe, your reasoning is sound, that the President is still President regardless of his physical location, BUT we must be cognizant of the quoted Asare ruling, that for the purposes of Article 60(11), when both the Prez and his Vice are out of the country, "they are to be regarded as unable to perform the functions" of their offices. There's no way around that ruling, unless you want to start disregarding whatever ruling you find inconvenient - but that's not the path Ghana wishes to take. Therefore, in accord with the rule of law, the oath should have been administered (twice) and should not have been shunned by the recalcitrant - and now impeachable - Speaker.
Annorwuo 11 years ago

Particularly our bankrupt media,who have propped up some of these lunatics,masquerading as noble academics!! And by the way, who is supposed to be 'intimidated' by the string of letters these 'useless' characters flaunt in p ...
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Particularly our bankrupt media,who have propped up some of these lunatics,masquerading as noble academics!! And by the way, who is supposed to be 'intimidated' by the string of letters these 'useless' characters flaunt in public?
Okoampa inadvertently let the cat out of the bag, when he conceded publicly,for the first time, that these so-called 'intellectuals',are in fact, nothing more than an underground bunch of tribal zealots,bent on upsetting the social equilibrium[tranquility] we have in this country! I hope all those who have been hoodwinked into supporting these tribal supremacists,will sit up,and rethink their position.
today,one hardly hears whisper about notions like "Property-owing-democracy",a throw- back to the subtle techniques[ideology], employed by white plantation owners, to suppress a large segment of
society in some of the southern states in America!
People will recall the mischievous role,this same Kwaku Azar was allowed to play in this country,from his hideout,in some obscure corner of Florida,where he is a 'nobody';and essentially engaged in "walatu-walasa"
many of our country-folk are involved in the diaspora!
Kpeblo 11 years ago

Put politics aside the prof is 100% right.There should be an acting prez to lead when the prez and v.p are all out of the country. Look at the usa , during the state of the nation address when all lawmakers, prez and v.p are ...
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Put politics aside the prof is 100% right.There should be an acting prez to lead when the prez and v.p are all out of the country. Look at the usa , during the state of the nation address when all lawmakers, prez and v.p are in the same room there is always one lawmaker / senator who stay out and act as prez in the even when they all die and they are in the same country. Let thank God and the prof that nothing happened out of our leaders ignorance and not repeat it.
Kontseke 11 years ago

So Prof. after the swearing in of the Speaker as acting President, what happens when the President and his Vice come back, another handing over and Swearing In ceremony? Ebeiii. I think the Speaker can be sworn in when both ...
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So Prof. after the swearing in of the Speaker as acting President, what happens when the President and his Vice come back, another handing over and Swearing In ceremony? Ebeiii. I think the Speaker can be sworn in when both Executives are incapacitated. On the day he was Sworn in as Speaker his capacity to act as President was spelt out to him and it makes no sense to do so again.
HANSON 11 years ago

Ghana doesn't need a president anyway,
Mahama is just warming the seat

Ghana doesn't need a president anyway,
Mahama is just warming the seat
rex 11 years ago

so if Obama travels out of USA he is no longer their president...??? I wonder self for all this booklong chew and poor professors and doctors who cannot produce anything new... shame

so if Obama travels out of USA he is no longer their president...??? I wonder self for all this booklong chew and poor professors and doctors who cannot produce anything new... shame
jOEy lOndOn 11 years ago

Foolishness at his peak.

Foolishness at his peak.

Yaw Boamah 11 years ago

Life still goes on and the country is still running

Life still goes on and the country is still running
ZABZ BOY 11 years ago

how does you suggestion help the country,Only talking and critics they know. instead of giving suggestions which will help develop the nation, they appear always criticizing and blaming every efforts.

how does you suggestion help the country,Only talking and critics they know. instead of giving suggestions which will help develop the nation, they appear always criticizing and blaming every efforts.
K4 for Life 11 years ago

I always admire academicians no matter who support and detest people who are were given all the resources from his father from Ghana coffers yet could manage only third class as only third class student in his batch and kick ...
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I always admire academicians no matter who support and detest people who are were given all the resources from his father from Ghana coffers yet could manage only third class as only third class student in his batch and kick from prestigious oxford university for drugs he can't stop even after been to the wailing wall. But you prof and other academicians that use Ghana name to get chance to school in abroad with scholarships pls do come home and help that is what the ancient tigers are using to develop. U don't use your youthful years in abroad whiles others try their bed to develop the country and you just complain. Come and join to moving train to assist than wasting our ears with your write ups
As for this one nkoaa dii3 Bribehene Binladdo did very well.
NAna 11 years ago

go think how to bring ghana out to mess and stop this kiddy play, who cares.

go think how to bring ghana out to mess and stop this kiddy play, who cares.
father 11 years ago

My friend shut-up and concentrate on your Labour in USA. Those that want to serve mother Ghana are at home and let have our Peace.

My friend shut-up and concentrate on your Labour in USA. Those that want to serve mother Ghana are at home and let have our Peace.
efo 11 years ago

please do we need to sworn in the prez and veep anytime their return from foreign trips? because once their are sworn on the 1st January no more swearing in again but we have sworn the Speaker anytime he acts as a prez? I my ...
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please do we need to sworn in the prez and veep anytime their return from foreign trips? because once their are sworn on the 1st January no more swearing in again but we have sworn the Speaker anytime he acts as a prez? I my personal view we need to swear the prez if we want to satisfy our constitution obligations before he take presidency from the speaker.
TRUTH 11 years ago

Let us use a bit of common sense and stop being mechanical. Ghana had no president on Wednesday. ...yes! So Ghana has ceased to exist? Let's engage in fruitful debate please

Let us use a bit of common sense and stop being mechanical. Ghana had no president on Wednesday. ...yes! So Ghana has ceased to exist? Let's engage in fruitful debate please
OGOGLO QUARTER! !!! 11 years ago

CAN HE GO AWAY FOREVER,,,B'COZ ,HE DONE NOTHING GOOD,,,,,,,,,,GHANA DIDN'T JUST NEED A PREZ,, WE NEED A GOOD LEADER,,,,,

CAN HE GO AWAY FOREVER,,,B'COZ ,HE DONE NOTHING GOOD,,,,,,,,,,GHANA DIDN'T JUST NEED A PREZ,, WE NEED A GOOD LEADER,,,,,
KT 11 years ago

Whether you and all npp' s like or not he is our President which your nana will not even come close. Is about time y'all get it to your coconut heads.

Whether you and all npp' s like or not he is our President which your nana will not even come close. Is about time y'all get it to your coconut heads.
chief 11 years ago

This man teaches accounts in the US. Though a lawyer. He does not practice. Is he trying to say because the president was outside the jurisdiction some one needed to act. What is the use of deligated authority. He tend to ...
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This man teaches accounts in the US. Though a lawyer. He does not practice. Is he trying to say because the president was outside the jurisdiction some one needed to act. What is the use of deligated authority. He tend to make so much noise about nothing

Kwamivi 11 years ago

Dr, Emeritus.......

Dr, Emeritus.......
Oba Nyasani Baako Pe In Ghana! 11 years ago

It does not make difference in that opepeni mahama is cursed by the Almighty God.

It does not make difference in that opepeni mahama is cursed by the Almighty God.
nana bee 11 years ago

Unfortunately the law prof has it all wrond. The key word in the constitutional provision is "perform". Both president and vice president even though away from their motherland were performing their constitutionally mandated ...
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Unfortunately the law prof has it all wrond. The key word in the constitutional provision is "perform". Both president and vice president even though away from their motherland were performing their constitutionally mandated services to the nation.

Thank you
HAWA YAKUBU 11 years ago

Prof, I read through the reaction of people and every one think you are a fool. Please don't this your stupid title fool people. If you were that good your ass would be in Ghana now. Perpetual inferno like you do nothing in t ...
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Prof, I read through the reaction of people and every one think you are a fool. Please don't this your stupid title fool people. If you were that good your ass would be in Ghana now. Perpetual inferno like you do nothing in the class-room buy poison the youth.
Queen 11 years ago

How can the president & the Vice President be out of the country at the same time. Is this lawful?

How can the president & the Vice President be out of the country at the same time. Is this lawful?
Nana Addo, Nima Junction 11 years ago

Fool, don't your foolish father and ashawo mother travel to funerals and leave you idiot in charge of your devastated home?

Fool, don't your foolish father and ashawo mother travel to funerals and leave you idiot in charge of your devastated home?
Nana konadu Amoah jnr 11 years ago

Hawa...if u will critically look at the words prof Asare used...i dnt think you will be there to insult the man..prof said, is a constitutional demand to sworn in the speaker of parliament in..in the absence of the president ...
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Hawa...if u will critically look at the words prof Asare used...i dnt think you will be there to insult the man..prof said, is a constitutional demand to sworn in the speaker of parliament in..in the absence of the president and his vice..Hawa yakubu, mind you the word professor is a title and also not all professor teach or lecture in a lecture room..
Obed Adore 11 years ago

You are wrong.. use the correct words and do not bend anything here ... the critical words here is "perform their functions as...." not the "in the absence of.."... completely different words... Both the pres and vice were ...
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You are wrong.. use the correct words and do not bend anything here ... the critical words here is "perform their functions as...." not the "in the absence of.."... completely different words... Both the pres and vice were still performing their duties outside... they are no incapacitated... does this mean that the contracts and agreements they sign outside should not hold since the speaker was serving in their stead? We cannot have two presidents or vice presidents at the same time.
CORNEY 11 years ago

Nana konadu Amoah jnr,you must also know that in America we don't say Professor this or that but we call the name and say professor of this or that if we want to say what that individual does for living but because people tea ...
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Nana konadu Amoah jnr,you must also know that in America we don't say Professor this or that but we call the name and say professor of this or that if we want to say what that individual does for living but because people teaching in the colleges in Ghana always calling themselves Professor this or that some of our Ghanaian professors although know better take advantage of that calling themselves Professor this or that and this guy called Asare is one of them because he may be teaching in some of the Colleges in New York area,he is fake.
I believe he used the nonsense in Africa to write his thesis for his PhD,with this mindset he cannot use American system to get the PhD.
Nana konadu Amoah jnr 11 years ago

The chief justice and the speaker of parliament are trying to tell Ghananians that,some laws in the constitution are not meant to be comply or to be observed but others are to be comply...prof Asare, this is where our country ...
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The chief justice and the speaker of parliament are trying to tell Ghananians that,some laws in the constitution are not meant to be comply or to be observed but others are to be comply...prof Asare, this is where our country has gone to...Ghananians should take note if what is going on in the nation.
D.B.K### 11 years ago

It appears this man really has nothing very important to do with his time. I have had a substantive president upteen years now since our independence they couldn't impact my life anyway. So what then would a 1 day president d ...
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It appears this man really has nothing very important to do with his time. I have had a substantive president upteen years now since our independence they couldn't impact my life anyway. So what then would a 1 day president do for me. Sworn in or not sworn in it doesn't make any difference to me now. Pls, give us a break with ur booklong litigations. It's very unproductive to some of us now.
Gaba 11 years ago

I'm tired of people like this so -called constitutional lawyer .He is wasting our precious time based on technicalities which deserves no attention .
Africans waste so much in talking .we need talk of scientific invention .W ...
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I'm tired of people like this so -called constitutional lawyer .He is wasting our precious time based on technicalities which deserves no attention .
Africans waste so much in talking .we need talk of scientific invention .We want them talk about how to go to space .we want them talk about how to create wealth .we want them talk about how to create and make medicine to cure Ebola That's killing thousands of our brothers in Africa .we want them talk about how to end poverty in Africa .we want them talk about how to harvest the sun and Wind to empower our homes with electricity .
We don't want them talk about garbage .shame on us for expecting whites to do everything for us in this 21st century .
This guy and his likes should shut up .
Concerned 11 years ago

Is this stupid time waster telling us the vice president should be sworn in anytime the president travels before he can act as president. The vice does not become president but acting president so he is in exactly the same po ...
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Is this stupid time waster telling us the vice president should be sworn in anytime the president travels before he can act as president. The vice does not become president but acting president so he is in exactly the same position as the speaker. Too many ghanaian academics are a disgrace. They think like computers and just like computers are brilliant when it comes to structured problems but when soft skills are needed their operating systems collapses
Appletus 11 years ago

Did President spend the entire days in Burkina Faso and Nigeria?
That calls for use of your 5th and 7th November.
This stupid professor should give me the interpretation of "day" if the President returned to the country sa ...
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Did President spend the entire days in Burkina Faso and Nigeria?
That calls for use of your 5th and 7th November.
This stupid professor should give me the interpretation of "day" if the President returned to the country same day.
The constitution is silent on that but insists on absence, and incapacitated
Robot professor.
Dziko Kwame 11 years ago

Fellow Ghanaians

Kwaku Azar (one of the most popular SIL visitors in Ghanaweb), a professor in Accounting in Florida, USA, isn't wrong at all.

Kwaku Azar, though a die-in-wool NPP follower, ins't talking PARTY POLITICS ...
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Fellow Ghanaians

Kwaku Azar (one of the most popular SIL visitors in Ghanaweb), a professor in Accounting in Florida, USA, isn't wrong at all.

Kwaku Azar, though a die-in-wool NPP follower, ins't talking PARTY POLITICS here.

For a recap, Readers need to know that Prof Asare did take the Government of Ghana to the Supreme Court during President Kufuor's regime, challenging the legality of having to "SWEAR IN AN ACTING PRESIDENT, JUST BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT AND VICE WERE OUT ON DUTY".

The Supreme Court of Ghana ruled out Prof Asare, declaring that the Constitution of Ghana demanded the Speaker to be sworn in when the Pres and Vice were out of town.

With the Supreme Court of Ghana declaring Prof Asare "wrong", what then makes Kwaku Azar wrong now in asking for FULL IMPLEMENTATION of the Supreme Court Judgment?

God bless our Homeland Ghana, and make our Nation great and strong.

Join Kwaku Azar to take the Supreme Court to task.

Cheers
Abeeku Mensah 11 years ago

The skies over Ghana did not fall, corruption, stealing, tribalism and moral decadence continued unabated so what is the big deal? Some of you educated souls in Ghana are so out of touch with the suffering of the down and ...
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The skies over Ghana did not fall, corruption, stealing, tribalism and moral decadence continued unabated so what is the big deal? Some of you educated souls in Ghana are so out of touch with the suffering of the down and out souls in Ghana the only things that matter is for you selfish elite to see yourselves in papers or hear yourselves speak. While there may be constitutional issues at stake, Ghana can be vulnerable to outside enemies when Ghana is divided along political and tribal lines and when people are asleep at their respective posts. If who is in charge of the presidency trumps patriotism and vigilance then a president and his men cannot save the nation. Let's grow up for a change and look to things that matter in the lives of a majority of Ghanaians and not what become basis for intellectual chatter.
Annorwuo 11 years ago

Community in Florida,where he has been encouraged by our bankrupt media to engage in his duplicitous conduct! the I dare him to criticize Chief Justice Roberts,the head of the U.S Supreme Court,and see how residents,particula ...
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Community in Florida,where he has been encouraged by our bankrupt media to engage in his duplicitous conduct! the I dare him to criticize Chief Justice Roberts,the head of the U.S Supreme Court,and see how residents,particularly the Cuban emigres,will react to that kind of 'nonsense'.
The mask 11 years ago

Countries train their doctors differently and award different degrees. It is time we started conferring Doctor of Medicine degrees to MBChB students who have performed the necessary research projects as some countries do.

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Countries train their doctors differently and award different degrees. It is time we started conferring Doctor of Medicine degrees to MBChB students who have performed the necessary research projects as some countries do.

The current practice where newly inducted doctors called house officers with no experience whatsoever are left to experiment with (attend to) serious medical cases while residents, specialists and consultants are away must be put to a stop immediately. There must be at least one specialist present 24 hours in three shift rotations to supervise them. Our health system as it is presently is not the best. The situation in the countryside and rural communities is even worse.

Do not doubt the wisdom in these words.
Kwame Yentumi 11 years ago

All these Ghanaian lawyers in abroad are do nothing lawyers.They can'nt win case in court but when they come back home they act as if they are good lawyers.Who will hire them.They're useless, I'm written from Canada.Don't min ...
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All these Ghanaian lawyers in abroad are do nothing lawyers.They can'nt win case in court but when they come back home they act as if they are good lawyers.Who will hire them.They're useless, I'm written from Canada.Don't mind them,any time matters arise in Ghana they act as if they are good lawyers.
Obournana 11 years ago

Cheap popularity. It is past. Think about better things and contribute to the well-being of Ghana. Use your time well instead of something that is gone. Think about the future of the country.

Cheap popularity. It is past. Think about better things and contribute to the well-being of Ghana. Use your time well instead of something that is gone. Think about the future of the country.
Afe Sem 11 years ago

I realise that this prof of a sort is so obsessed with matters of the presidency and I wonder why?
To be a prof does not make you any better in determining matters of the nation. You were there when they voted the current pa ...
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I realise that this prof of a sort is so obsessed with matters of the presidency and I wonder why?
To be a prof does not make you any better in determining matters of the nation. You were there when they voted the current parliament and president. We don't need your type so no one look at you! Shut up and concentrate on graduating students. Period!
jah guide 11 years ago

useless fool

useless fool
Time-will-tell 11 years ago

No common sense. We had a president who was not incapacitated in any way and who was in control of his govt. What we have is a poorly crafted law and professors whose motive yoi can only wonder about.

Kudos to Adjaho for ...
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No common sense. We had a president who was not incapacitated in any way and who was in control of his govt. What we have is a poorly crafted law and professors whose motive yoi can only wonder about.

Kudos to Adjaho for refusing to go through a pointless exercise and bringing into scruriny this clause in the constitution.
ZIGI ZAGA 11 years ago

WHAT CRISIS? THE CRISIS IS IN YOUR IMAGINATION.... ALL THE SO-CALLED EXPERTS COMING OUT OF THE WOODWORK WITH VARIED AND COLOURFUL OPINIONS WHICH ARE BORN OUT OF NOTHING SHOULD GIVE US A BREAK. THERE ARE FAR MORE IMPORTANT THI ...
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WHAT CRISIS? THE CRISIS IS IN YOUR IMAGINATION.... ALL THE SO-CALLED EXPERTS COMING OUT OF THE WOODWORK WITH VARIED AND COLOURFUL OPINIONS WHICH ARE BORN OUT OF NOTHING SHOULD GIVE US A BREAK. THERE ARE FAR MORE IMPORTANT THINGS FOR GHANA TO CONTEMPLATE THAN WHETHER THE SPEAKER OUGHT TO SWEAR AN OATH OR NOT IN THE ABSENCE OF THE PREZ AND VICE-PREZ.
GIVE US A BREAK AND APPLY YOUR WISDOM TO SOLVING THE INTRACTABLE PROBLEMS OF GHANA. HABA!!!
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ben 11 years ago

unless we dont believe in our own constitution anymore, it may not sound good to be sworing in an acting president anytime but that is what the constitution says. untill we amend it we cannot insult someone who wants the righ ...
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unless we dont believe in our own constitution anymore, it may not sound good to be sworing in an acting president anytime but that is what the constitution says. untill we amend it we cannot insult someone who wants the right thing to done according to the constitution since the constitution is the supreme.
ROGUE LAWYER 11 years ago

there is no breach in this issue - CJ has done nothing wrong- because the constituition did not explain what type of absences need a swearing in- but to common understanding - at exercutive powers traveled outside the count ...
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there is no breach in this issue - CJ has done nothing wrong- because the constituition did not explain what type of absences need a swearing in- but to common understanding - at exercutive powers traveled outside the country on national issues are not absents- this constituitional absent is refering to whereby the president is dead or uncurable sick in which he cannot direct presidential affaires that is where we need to swear somebody mandated by law in to do the presidential works.

it is only a conservative political beast who would not understand this.

clear scenario

to swear in the speaker as the president s/he must resign from every holding position-, which he cannot resume after the return of the president so here the speaker had an interest to protect, in the sense that there is no constitutional benefit/ provisions for him as former prez if cannot resume his position again as speaker,and remember the same constituition forbiden ex-prez to take exercutive positions in the country again. o knowing all these the CJ did a wise job not to swear him in again.
let us also ask ourself about this - that asuming the speaker was swore in as president today and within the period of the president returnng from his travel THE SPEAKER DIES arew going to refer to him as the former president or former speaker of parliament?
Nii Anyetei Blofonyo 11 years ago

I asked my 2 year old daughter Wednesday: Adwoa, who is the president of Ghana?

Enough said.

I asked my 2 year old daughter Wednesday: Adwoa, who is the president of Ghana?

Enough said.
KWAME-BELGIUM 11 years ago

Mr. Law Prof or whatever you call yourself. Please, stop this foolish argument and contribute to the building of Ghana. We are fed up with your thesis.

Mr. Law Prof or whatever you call yourself. Please, stop this foolish argument and contribute to the building of Ghana. We are fed up with your thesis.
Nii Anyetei Blofonyo 11 years ago

On that Wednesday, I asked my 2 year old daughter, Adwoa; who is the president of Ghana?

She answered: John Mahama. Adwoa doesn't have CFE, JD. What she has is COMMON SENSE.

On that Wednesday, I asked my 2 year old daughter, Adwoa; who is the president of Ghana?

She answered: John Mahama. Adwoa doesn't have CFE, JD. What she has is COMMON SENSE.
kAAKEEKU 11 years ago

"Your teacher who teaches you has sat for the BECE himself and got F+, are we safe in Ghana. "Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on go ...
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"Your teacher who teaches you has sat for the BECE himself and got F+, are we safe in Ghana. "Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons...listen to others even the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story.
Kwasi Michael 11 years ago

Africa don't even need this useless,incompetent n corrupt leaders.Ghana am sure will be better without this foolish president

Africa don't even need this useless,incompetent n corrupt leaders.Ghana am sure will be better without this foolish president
Abrante 11 years ago

What difference did it make. Ma yen dwen yen ho

What difference did it make. Ma yen dwen yen ho
appiah 11 years ago

Kwaku, I've always liked your analysis but this time you are building a mountain out of a molehill. Keep your thinking cap on and don't allow your emotions to cloud your analysis.

Kwaku, I've always liked your analysis but this time you are building a mountain out of a molehill. Keep your thinking cap on and don't allow your emotions to cloud your analysis.
Kofi 11 years ago

I think Ghana has had no president in long time. The country has been on auto-pilot for years.

I think Ghana has had no president in long time. The country has been on auto-pilot for years.
Damani Kariku Katum Kunari III 11 years ago

The same Speaker of Parliament had been sworn in and we are still in Dec.2014,The prez and vice continues to travel officially .Why is some Ghanaians with " BIG HEADS BUT WITH SMALL HEARTS? " Mr. Prof. We have lot of u in ...
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The same Speaker of Parliament had been sworn in and we are still in Dec.2014,The prez and vice continues to travel officially .Why is some Ghanaians with " BIG HEADS BUT WITH SMALL HEARTS? " Mr. Prof. We have lot of u in Ghana . Go home and help to build. Seeing is believing.
Slayve, Dansoman 11 years ago

So has Ghana burnt? If something has happened to the president whilst overseas, will he be referred to as former president ? On his visit, was he referred to as former president? These technicalities don't bring us cassava so ...
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So has Ghana burnt? If something has happened to the president whilst overseas, will he be referred to as former president ? On his visit, was he referred to as former president? These technicalities don't bring us cassava so president or not, the irfinaru people of this country don't care, Mr. Professor.
TWILIGHT SPARKLE 11 years ago

Who cares if there is no president. When there is a physical presence of the president, and his Vice, nothing gets done, so what difference does it make. No wonder the Speaker doesn't want it. It is a useless position. In ...
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Who cares if there is no president. When there is a physical presence of the president, and his Vice, nothing gets done, so what difference does it make. No wonder the Speaker doesn't want it. It is a useless position. In fact, if it fell in my lap for free, I'd resign promptly Find something more useful for your time, Professor
saaka pakiba 11 years ago

sorry prof, but i think you rather got wrong does that means when both the president and vice are out of the country has incapacitated them from performing their constitutional duties, certainly not

sorry prof, but i think you rather got wrong does that means when both the president and vice are out of the country has incapacitated them from performing their constitutional duties, certainly not
Wilbert Nam-katoti 11 years ago

With current technology you perform your functions wherever you are. How does this amount to a crisis let us get out of these little little things save time for more serious things. Come on you are in the USA.

With current technology you perform your functions wherever you are. How does this amount to a crisis let us get out of these little little things save time for more serious things. Come on you are in the USA.

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