Thursday , March 28 2024

SPEAKER DUMPS MOTION TO INVESTIGATE MAHAMA OVER FORD SAGA

The Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho has thrashed out the motion filed by the Minority calling for investigations into President’s Mahama’s Ford gift saga.

Mr. Doe Adjaho directed the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) members of the house to pursue the case at the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, (CHRAJ).

According to the Speaker, various legal and constitutional provisions indicate that the body mandated to deal with such issues is the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, (CHRAJ). “Ordinarily, having regard to standing order 79(4), I would have returned the motion to the member in whose name it stands as being inadmissible. But the motion was tied contemporaneously to the request for the recall of the house under standing order 38(1) which derives from article 123 of the constitution and therefore leaves me with no discretion in recalling the house.

Standing order 79(4) also provides as follows: Every notice shall be submitted to Mr. Speaker who shall direct that it be printed in its original terms or with such amendments as he shall direct or that it be returned to the member submitting it as being inadmissible.” “I am therefore unable to admit this motion.

I hereby direct the clerk to return the motion to the member in whose name it stands in line with standing order 79 (4).” He also adjourned sitting sine die. “Since this is the matter that has brought us here, I adjourned the House sine die,” Mr. Adjaho added.

The minority caucus of Parliament had filed a motion to recall all members of parliament back to the house to debate on and set a committee to investigate into the circumstances surrounding the President’s receival of a Ford Expedition from a Burkinabe, Dzibril Kanazoe, who was later on awarded a contract.

Following this development, a former whip of the house who is the MP for the Sefwi Bodi constituency also doubling as a deputy minister for water works and housing, Sampson Ahi, has stated that the minority only “sought to undermine the same constitution that h as given parliament the mandate to work” and that state institutions should be respected and supported to work.

Story: Akwasi Addo/Pinkfmonlinegh.com

 

 

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