Afrigather TheParliament Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has instructed the President of Ghana that his nominees for Ministers and Deputy is not going to be accredited by Parliament till he indicators the Anti- Homosexual Invoice.
He mentioned that the Supreme Court docket was now listening to a authorized problem, and he suspended the assessment of those nominations.
The MP Rockson-Nelson Etse Okay. Dafeamekpor of the South Dayi constituency sought an interlocutory injunction, which prompted the suspension. Parliament’s capability to maneuver on with the approval process for the President’s candidates has been primarily suspended by this injunction.
This determination additionally complies with a path from the presidency, which stopped Parliament from shifting the Invoice on Human Sexual Rights and Household Values ahead for signature by sending them a stop and desist letter.
The instruction issued by the presidency was justified by the continued authorized processes on the Supreme Court docket.
Bagbin dominated that Parliament couldn’t study the President’s nominations within the context of those authorized proceedings till the Supreme Court docket decided concerning the interlocutory injunction. He claimed that this selection is according to the dedication to guard the rule of regulation.
“The Parliament of Ghana will adjust to the present authorized framework and reject the makes an attempt by the Government Secretary of the President, by way of his contemptuous letter, to instruct the Clerk to Parliament, an Officer of Parliament whose place is recognizably beneath the Structure. We will not stop and desist!
“Be that as it might, Hon Members, I additionally carry to your consideration, the receipt of a course of from the Courts titled Rockson-Nelson Etse Okay. Dafeamekpor vs. The Speaker of Parliament and the Lawyer-Common ( Swimsuit no. J1/12/2024) which course of was served on the nineteenth of March 2024 and an injunction movement on discover searching for to restrain the Speaker from continuing with the vetting and approval of the names of the individuals submitted by His Excellency the President till the provisions of the structure are glad.
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