Legal Practitioner, Philip Addison has filed a suit challenging President Mahama’s appointment of a Chairperson for the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).
The suit is seeking to restrain the President from using his last 16 days to make the appointment barely two weeks to handing over power.
President John Mahama on Tuesday swore in Mr. Joseph Whittal as the new CHRAJ Commissioner, who was until his appointment, the Deputy Commissioner at CHRAJ.
But speaking on Eyewitness News, Philip Addison condemned the President’s move, arguing that the letter of the constitution does not allow the President to make these late appointments.
“Our position is that these appointments are clearly not in line with the letter and spirit of the constitution. The President has barely two weeks to go and he is purporting to make these major appointments to saddle an incoming government. We do not think that it is proper, we do not think that it is the proper exercise of the discretion given to him under the constitution.”
“A new government is coming into power and the power of discretion must be exercised …What will the president lose if he doesn’t make the appointment that he’s making now?”
He therefore insisted that the new appointment should not be entertained since it seeks to tie the hand of the incoming President.
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