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Akufo-Addo’s unwillingness to sign the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values bill has prompted Speaker of the Parliament Alban Bagbin to halt consideration of the nominations of Ministers and Deputy Ministers of State.
Bagbin’s ruling is the result of an interlocutory injunction that Rockson-Nelson Etse K. Dafeamekpor, the MP for South Dayi, sought before the Supreme Court. This order prevents Parliament from approving the nominations of new ministers made by President Akufo-Addo.
Following an order from the president, Bagbin has stopped delivering the Bill on Human Sexual Rights and Family Values to Parliament so that President Akufo-Addo can sign it. The presidency delivered a cease and desist letter to Parliament.
The Supreme Court’s pending interlocutory application was used by the presidency as justification for their ruling.
Bagbin reaffirmed in an official answer that identical conditions precluded Parliament from approving additional ministers.
The “ongoing scenario poses a grave threat to our legislative authority and, by extension, the democratic principles we strive to uphold. The implications of such executive actions extend far beyond the immediate legislative items at hand. They erode the foundational checks and balances that our forebearers painstakingly established to ensure a vibrant and functioning democracy.”
“The Parliament of Ghana will comply with the existing legal framework and reject the attempts by the Executive Secretary of the President, through his contemptuous letter, to instruct the Clerk to Parliament, an Officer of Parliament whose position is recognizably under the Constitution. We shall not cease and desist!” he stated.
“Be that as it may, Hon Members, I also bring to your attention, the receipt of a process from the Courts titled Rockson-Nelson Etse K. Dafeamekpor vrs. The Speaker of Parliament and the Attorney -General ( Suit no. J1/12/2024) which process was served on the 19th of March 2024 and an injunction motion on notice seeking to restrain the Speaker from proceeding with the vetting and approval of the names of the persons submitted by His Excellency the President until the provisions of the constitution are satisfied.
“Hon. Members in the light of this process, the House is unable to continue to consider the nominations of His Excellency the President in the “spirit of upholding the rule of law “ until after the determination of the application for interlocutory injunction by the Supreme Court.”
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