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Parliament, Supreme Court Brouhaha: Filing to contest future election doesn't vacate MP seat – Attorney General

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  • Emelia 1 year ago

    This is the ruling that has been given to the supreme court. Parliament will resume sitting by next week. Law is very interesting.

  • Supreme crook. 1 year ago

    How can an MP belong to two different parties or be a member of a party and still claim independent. This bull crap thinking. Where in this world have you heard or read any stupid reasoning like this. Those MPs are selfish an ...
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  • Backpack 1 year ago

    These irrelevant NPP guys think they are living for ever.Be there with your dilutionary thinking.Yet they go to their Churches and pretend to be Christians.God will punish you all.Who respects your looted money now?

  • Kobby 1 year ago

    Per your LOGIC AND COMMON SENSE approach, how do you declare Andrew Asiamah's seat vacant for crossing carpets? The man was an NPP MP and even as an independent MP, he still sits and votes with the NPP. So, how do you declare ...
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  • Logorligi 1 year ago

    Supreme Crook, you have a sharp mind. However I will help you out with a better interpretation - in scientific terms, of what "selfish and greedy" means. All that those two unsavoury words mean is the total understanding of t ...
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  • Francis 1 year ago

    Eeeerh. How can somebody belong to two parties at the same time. Campaigning for one in future now while belong to another.
    People without integrity preaching the gospel to us.
    Supreme Court, give your final ruling and the ...
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  • POER 1 year ago

    DID THEY REGISTER THEIR INDEPENDANT PARTYS ? IF YES THEN THE HAVE CHANGE THEIR PARTYS BY LAW AND NEED TO STOP ACTING THEIR POSITIONS THE HAD BY THE OLD PARTY: AS LONG AS ONE HAS REGISTER HIS NEW PARTY ; THE OLD PARTY STOP TO ...
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  • NPP= NANA'S POVERTY PROMOTERS 1 year ago

    Fellow Ghanaians, this is your Attorney General and he doesn't even understand basic English. What do we expect from free SHS graduates then? If article 97 is referring to a futuristic plan, then what is it's purpose in the c ...
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  • KWASI YAMOAH 1 year ago

    YEAH, THIS IS THE CORRECT INTERPRETATION OF THIS CASE.

  • Dungeon Master 1 year ago

    Says the Attorney General who couldn't get guilty verdicts for thieves caught stealing. He is as useless soap to a hog.

  • Chapo 1 year ago

    Criminal General is now getting involved but your plot won't work.

  • POER 1 year ago

    THE CONFUSED AG- HE IS CONFUSED THAN AKUFO ADDO

  • A player signing up for a different team does not stop playing 1 year ago

    So if Kudus signs a contract with Chelsea for the next football season he loses is role in Westham, and cannot play for them? Only senseless people will follow the pamper wearing speaker.

  • snd 1 year ago

    Kwasia like you. Can you compare oranges to apple? Being a parliamentarian require loyalty. The constitution in Art. 97 1 (g) and (h) is very clear on this. Why does your corrupt party always want to have its way at all cost ...
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  • Ako Spat 1 year ago

    @snd. Only you see two oranges but prefer to say they are an apple and an orange.
    If one accepts an employment from a different company while serving his notice period at his current employer, does this render his notice pe ...
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  • Drew 1 year ago

    Let me make it more absurd for you. Can a Methodist Bishop announce to move into Catholicism on a future date and still be allowed to be a Bishop? There's something called Group Think and its very high in some organisations ...
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  • Kofi Adu 1 year ago

    Drew, if you declare those seats vacant,then are you sending those Mps home or they are continue to stay in parliament?

  • Apples are not oranges 1 year ago

    That type of contract is accepted in the football industry. It does not infringe on any law or body. In rhe current ongoing parliament issue, we do not have anything like it. Article 97 has no ambiguities unless you import yo ...
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  • Kobby 1 year ago

    I thought I understood Article 97 and then I listened to Prof Gyampo who gave me a better appreciation of the thinking behind the article. Find his contribution to the debate made a couple of days ago and you will come to und ...
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  • dem lie 1 year ago

    Bro election is a process and its not a one day job .so what are you saying?

  • Pee 1 year ago

    Shut up. You don’t know anything

  • LONGJOHN 1 year ago

    ANOTHER USELESS ONE

  • Okyere J. 1 year ago

    Then what actually transpired in the case of Asiamah alias former deputy speaker?

  • Jomo 1 year ago

    NPP lawyer. Thinking the same when it doesn’t suit them. Useless Psrty UP origin

  • godfatherHuh 1 year ago

    Really?

  • TRUMU TRUMU AKUFFO ADDO 1 year ago

    DISGRUNTLED RED LIPSTICK ODAME BODAMFO SHUT UP. YOU ARE IRRELEVANT IN GHANA POLITICS AGAIN WHEN JAKPA FLOORED YOU. FOOL!. KEEP QUIET!

  • Aluta, Bantama 1 year ago

    Look at this nonsense chimpaze. What happened to Fomena MP Andrews Asiama when he filed to contest as independent candidate in 2020? You Dame, do you actually listen to your "brain" when you talk?

  • kwame 1 year ago

    NDC don't know book.

  • I can't laugh oooo 1 year ago

    But only Akufo Addo has been SACKED from Oxford University, no academic records, no classmates. Old man buge shame

  • Dav 1 year ago

    Godfred dam, which clause did you use to quash the election of Assin North parliamentary? Did James win the seat before renouncing his Canadian citizenship? You are a quak lawyer

    Which article did prof Mike use to remove F ...
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  • Jakpa to hear this again 1 year ago

    Prof. Prof. Prof. Richard Jakpa's small boy, Dame created another seamless shaming scene again. A problem lawyer, eiiii Ghana this?

  • Pee 1 year ago

    The most Stupid Fooooool ever

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 1 year ago

    Are you surprised by his comments? What do you expect this ugly, senseless, shameless, gormless, lawless, stupid, corrupt, foolish, deceitful, ignorant, divisive, arrogant and primitive fool to say? This apache with one and t ...
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  • Gyataba 1 year ago

    Once you're alive You'll see what yoye end wi be. Do you know how he came by the hip problem. One day you'll also wake up and yours would he terrible. At least he has hus intellect intact, able to work and go about his acti ...
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  • Yaw 1 year ago

    Hypocrite, so where were you when Mike Ocquaye ruled otherwise. Can you not be consistent ? You should have challenged it then.

  • Ken 1 year ago

    what sort of interpretation is this… bullshit AG indeed

  • WHY NPP 1 year ago

    Isn't the same NPP who declared Fomena seat Vacant 3 months before the 2020 elections because he declared his intention to run independently? Have forgotten that Nana Addo said he cannot work with independent? NPP is shame. T ...
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  • Maame Abenah 1 year ago

    Thank you, Sir. That was my question yesterday. These MPS have a four-year mandate to their respective communities. They are not surrendering their seats, are they? I have not learned the Law, and appreciate the Attorney Gene ...
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  • WHY NPP 1 year ago

    Abena, I know you are guy calling yourself Abena but that is fine because NPP have double identities. So when Quay dear3d Fomena vacant in 2020, was that lawful or unlawful?

  • Kofi Adu 1 year ago

    Are you sending those Mps home or they are continuing staying in parliament?If you are sending them home it means that those constituents will not have a presentation in parliament. And if they continue to stay in parliament ...
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  • AA 1 year ago

    We all know there is no sense in that head

  • Kwaku. 1 year ago

    The alternative to what the Attorney General is advocating is to have a situation where every Monday morning sees 80, or 5, or 10 MPs go to the President to inform him they wa

  • Matilda 1 year ago

    Embatle lier Dame is still alive and talking from his head without reference to the constitution.

    What else won't you support about Npp? You have lost credibility on that seat so just shut up. Jakpah is waiting for you.

    ...
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  • Pelicles 1 year ago

    All said and done, Bagbin is confused and is doing the bidding of his master John Mahama.

  • Kwaku. 1 year ago

    Let's not create a situation where Presidents could be terrorised by groups that threaten to resign unless a Minister is changed, etc.

  • Kwabena Aboagye 1 year ago

    SUPREME COURT TO BE CAREFUL! The staying of the decision by the Supreme Court was delivered even BEFORE the speaker had made his pronouncement. On what was the Supreme Court making the decision. These Supreme Court NPP ju ...
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  • EDWARD 1 year ago

    This idiot is a comic actor. When Mike Oquayedid in 2020, it was okay then? When did the costitution change?

  • Musa 1 year ago

    Mr Ag, this matter is very clear in article 91, and is a matter to be handled by the high court but u guys have decided to go to SC where ur aunties and uncles are to twist judgement in ur favour. Where were u when Mike Oquay ...
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  • Chapo 1 year ago

    Jakpa will handle him well. Keep bullshitting with Ghanaians.

  • SURVIVAL. 1 year ago

    This Attorney General is really an overside idiot.How can an mp works well when operating within two parties?

  • Nii 1 year ago

    According Kwame A-Plus and Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, 99% of NPP members are stupid. So, l won't be surprise if Godfred Dame is part of the said percentage.

  • Nana 1 year ago

    The npp ag

  • Taylor 1 year ago

    Is this guy a true lawyer, I don't think so. Where did he do his LLB and did he pass through Makola or where? I think the SP needs to investigate him because I have the cause to believe that he is a fake lawyer and is using s ...
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  • The Truth 1 year ago

    Where was this idiot when his party sacked Asiamah and declared his seat vacant? Fools, you think Ghana belongs to you? ODWAN Attorney General.

  • Abdul 1 year ago

    Where already no your position on this matter, very disgraceful AG you allow Akuffo Addo destroy your professionalism. We even know what the Supreme Court will say.

  • Towncrier 1 year ago

    Nincompoops and scallywags on a nation wrecking campaign.

  • Sul 1 year ago

    YOU'VE NEVER MADE ANY SENSE....I JUST CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THE NDC IN POWER

  • SLY 1 year ago

    JUST LISTEN TO WHAT THIS CRAP FROM THIS SO CALLED ATTORNEY GENERAL.. IS HE LISTENING TO HIMSELF? SIMPLE STRAIGHT FORWARD UNDERSTANDING OF ARTICLE 97 (1) g AND h IS A PROBLEM... AND THEY SAY THEY HAVE 20 TO 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE ...
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  • Jibril 1 year ago

    Brilliant. An intent is not an action.

  • Musa 1 year ago

    Kwasea, I intend to kill u. Ask if I will not be guilty of the crime when taken to court. U people are very stupid indeed. Ur limping AG caught on tape is still walking free. One big candidate for nsawam come next year

  • Yaa 1 year ago

    This kwasea Godfred Dame fears Richard Jakpa like kakai

  • Emmanuel Tengey 1 year ago

    This is common Law and am surprised we are hearing different interpretations from notable and respected Lawyers.
    What they are forgetting is bcos Electoral Commission has limited time to do bye election with reference to tho ...
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  • ZUZA 1 year ago

    Arguments at this stage should be left to the lawyers directly involved in this case. At the end of the day it’s the Supreme Court that will decide where the chips will fall. Hold your horses and wait for the substantive ma ...
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  • Papa 1 1 year ago

    WE DIDN'T EXPECT YOU TO SAY ANYTHING DIFFERENT. A SHAMELESS LIMPING APE.

  • Anane 1 year ago

    When the fundamentals of your supreme court judges are weak and bias, the speaker of parliament will expose you.

  • Apuuh 1 year ago

    When man made law is dispensed outside Moral values and Conscience , according to a philosopher that law is a useless law because that law does not promote the general good in the society.
    Conscience and moral values are ...
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  • Bawumiyo 1 year ago

    Who files to take part in current or previous elections? This man is dead from his neck upwards. You deter people doing law as they think evil people alone do it.

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  • Efo Kwame 1 year ago

    Ei NPP attorney general, what has changed in the constitution? The same Constitution different interpretation when a political party is in power. Attorney General mind your language and your interpretation. Almost 6 weeks awa ...
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  • Bongo 1 year ago

    Hahahaha, NPPigs!!!

  • Abdulai Mohammed 1 year ago

    The NPP should apologize to the Fomena MP for the disgrace and the belittlement they mattered on him in 2020.On that occasion,the President boldly went to Fomena and held raised the hand of the NPP choice of a parliamentary C ...
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  • Steve Williams 1 year ago

    Useless Attorney General, you are a disgrace to yourself and family. You are a lawyer and the attorney general and should not think like a JSS graduate. Read the heading of Article 97.’TENURE OF OFFICE MEMBERS’ Then read ...
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  • Francis 1 year ago

    Narrow minded. Do not think of tomorrow

  • Musa 1 year ago

    Haha he is not even conversant with the law, he can’t even understand article 97. Even the SC is running away from admitting the meaning of the law and the reason why they have placed injunction.
    Article 97 is clear and ...
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  • Raphael 1 year ago

    Please I want to be educated. If i am sitting on a chair and i am asked to get up, I can get up but can I be asked to get up from a chair i planned to sit on tomorrow?

  • Foli Foli 1 year ago

    Beating about the Bush? When you are in parliament and you are published by the electoral commission as candidates for the next election how again can you claim that you have not crossed carpet? How are you going to be campai ...
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