The Minority in Parliament has filed a motion before the House demanding the removal of the Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, from office.
It is the argument of the Minority that the Minister has refused to comply with a directive from Parliament to instruct the Ghana School of Law to admit some 499 LLB graduates.
Parliament a few weeks ago passed a resolution directing the General Legal Council (GLC) to admit the 499 candidates.
The candidates were denied admission to the Ghana School of Law because they failed despite making the 50% mark advertised.
The resolution was passed after Deputy Majority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin had filed a motion.
Parliament directed the Attorney General to ensure the GLC admitted he students.
But the Justice Minister wrote back say g the House had no such powers to direct the GLC to admit the LLB graduates.
“Whilst recognising the general legislative powers of Parliament in Ghana, except as have been circumscribed by the Constitution, I am constrained to advise that Parliament is devoid of power through the use of Parliamentary resolutions, to control the process of admission into the Ghana School of Law.
“The mode of exercising legislative power enshrined in article 106 of the Constitution does not admit of resolutions.”
The Minority has since filed a motion demanding the removal of the Minister.
Minority Chief Whip, Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak, who filed the memo on behalf of the Minority asked the Speaker to schedule a censure vote to have the Minister removed.
“That This Honorable House passes a vote of censure on the Honourable Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Mr Godfred Yeboah Dame, in respect of the following conduct: Refusal, without justifiable basis, to implement the resolution of this Honorable House unanimously passed on October 29, that the General Legal Council admits into the Ghana School of Law 499 students who sat for and passed the entrance examination of the Ghana School of Law for the 2021/22 legal year In accordance with its own published grounds rules, Impugning the image and integrity of this Honorable House through statements unbecoming of the holder of the office of Attorney General and Minister of Justice of this Republic”, the memorandum read.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana