Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said he wishes the Right To Information Bill were passed within the first 100 days of the Akufo-Addo government. Speaking at a Good Corporate Governance Initiative event in Accra on Tuesday, 31 January, Dr Bawumia said in line with the new government’s resolve to fight corruption, “we are going … Read more
Minister-designate for Local Government and Rural Development Hajia Alima Mahama says government would seek a constitutional amendment to get Metropolitan, Municipal, District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) elected into office. She said this is necessary as the constitutional provision in Article 248 (1) and (2) are both non-entrenched clauses. “(1) A candidate seeking election to a District Assembly … Read more
Minister-designate for Local Government and Rural Development Hajia Alima Mahama says government would seek a constitutional amendment to get Metropolitan, Municipal, District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) elected into office. She said this is necessary as the constitutional provision in Article 248 (1) and (2) are both non-entrenched clauses. Article 248 (1) (2) read: “(1) A candidate … Read more
Law Professor, H. Kwesi Prempeh, has defended the government’s proposed establishment of an Independent Prosecutor’s Office to deal with cases of corruption in the public sector. “I don’t think the idea itself of an independent prosecutor is at loggerheads with the Constitution,” he said in an interview with Nii Arday Clegg on Morning Starr Monday. … Read more
The Minority in Parliament have hinted they will challenge the decision by the government to create a special prosecutor’s office. According to the minority, the move will be a breach of Ghana’s constitution. The Akufo-Addo-led administration promised the creation of a special prosecutor’s office during the 2016 elections. The President believes such an independent prosecutor … Read more
An Accra High Court Judge, Mr. Justice Eric Kyei-Baffour has said the setting up of commissions of inquiries have limitations regarding the powers that they wield compared to that of a high court. He said it was unjustifiable and unlawful to draw a direct link between the status of commissions of inquiries and the high … Read more
A man, Theophilus Donkor, has headed for the Supreme Court seeking a perpetual injunction against the removal of persons from public boards in the event of a change in government. In an application filed to that order, Donkor wants the court to stop presidents from what has become a tradition of ousting heads of public institutions and … Read more
The promise by President-elect Akufo-Addo to create a Special Prosecutor, as should be expected, has generated much controversy. Political interference with criminal prosecutions is not new to Ghana. Military governments seized power with the promise of ending corruption and proceeded to clean the corruption of previous governments by creating new institutions and appointing the key … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), says it will hold its national congress to select party executives in two years from now. The congress is also expected to allow the executives devise strategies towards the 2020 elections, after its massive defeat in the 2016 elections. Addressing the press on Thursday, the General Secretary of the party, … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), says it will hold its national congress to select party executives in two years from now. The congress is also expected to allow the executives devise strategies towards the 2020 elections, after its massive defeat in the 2016 elections. Addressing the press on Thursday, the General Secretary of the party, … Read more
The National Democratic Congress (NDC), says it will hold its national congress to select party executives in two years from now. The congress is also expected to allow the executives devise strategies towards the 2020 elections, after its massive defeat in the 2016 elections. Addressing the press on Thursday, the General Secretary of the party, … Read more
Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, a Ghanaian lawyer based in the United States of America (USA), has called for an anti-Midnight Appointment Act that limits the power of the President to make appointments in the Public Service three months immediately before the next presidential elections and up to the end of his term. In his view, … Read more
He may be right, on the surface of things, that the Transitional Act of Parliament cannot supersede the dictates or powers of the Constitution. But this is insofar as the sacred principles of the Constitution are concerned. In practice, the Transitional Act of Parliament is a Constitutional Amendment passed by our august House of Representatives … Read more
President John Mahama is currently well within his right to make appointments before the handover of power on January 7, 2017, the Dean of the faculty of law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Kofi Abotsi has stated. At the moment, the President can do anything he is mandated to do … Read more
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 … Read more
The Brazilian Senate has approved a controversial amendment to the constitution capping public spending for the next 20 years. The approval of the austerity measure is an important victory for President Michel Temer. He took office earlier this year promising to lead the country out of its worst recession in many decades. Protests against the … Read more
Donald Trump’s remarkable election victory gives him an immediate business headache: what to do about his sprawling financial empire. During the campaign, he said that if he became president, he would hand control of his business empire to Ivanka and her brothers, Don and Eric. But the plan came under fierce scrutiny from critics, who … Read more
The Supreme Court has set Tuesday November 15, as the day to rule on former Attorney General Martin Amidu’s application seeking to cross examine embattled businessman Alfred Agbesi Woyome. Amidu’s application follows the Attorney General’s decision to discontinue an oral examination of Mr. Woyome despite serving an earlier notice to do. He is praying the … Read more
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rebuked the Electoral Commission for showing disrespect towards the court. At the court’s hearing of oral submissions on the Special Voting case, all seven panel members took turns to heavily criticise the EC for under-estimating the gravity of the issues before the court, Graphic Online’s Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson reports. The … Read more
The Supreme Court will on Monday decide whether to order Ghana’s Electoral Commission to announce the results of the special voting in this year’s general elections and subsequent ones after close of polls the same day. Currently, per the C. I 94 cast ballots of special voting are sealed by the EC and the parties, … Read more