4 Vacant Seats: Tsatsu Tsikata Contests Supreme Court Decision With More Detailed Information

Legal expert Tsatsu Tsikata has criticized the nation's Supreme Court for overturning Speaker Alban Kingsford Bagbin's ruling over the four open seats in Parliament.

Tsatsu Tsikata maintained that the Supreme Court's decision to halt Speaker Bagbin's decision had no legal justification.

Speaker Alban Bagbin's decision, which vacated four parliamentary seats, has been stayed by the Supreme Court.

Parliament has thus been instructed to recognise and allow the four MPs to fully represent their constituencies and carry out their official duties.

In order to prevent the implementation of the judgment that would have impacted three of their colleagues and one from the National Democratic Congress (NDC), members of Parliament from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) submitted an application to stay the Speaker's decision.

However, Tsatsu Tsikata made it clear in a Facebook post by Accra-based GHone TV that the Supreme Court had no justification to address Article 97(h) in his writ, which asked Afenyo-Markin to interpret solely Article 97(g). The esteemed scholar and attorney went on to assert that the Supreme Court committed a number of errors that need to be fixed for the benefit of future generations.

Meanwhile, the development has forced the sitting to be suspended indefinitely.

Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has once again adjourned the house indefinitely on Thursday, November 7, after Members of Parliament (MPs) from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) failed to attend the session.

Speaker Bagbin was disappointed by the state of affairs, emphasizing that the NPP members' absence made the session useless and necessitated the temporary postponement of Parliament.