Private legal practitioner, lawyer Tachie Antiedu, has described as apt the ruling by Speaker Alban Bagbin on the lawyer Sarah Adwoa Safo the MP for Dome-Kwabena.
The Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has ruled that Parliament will debate on the removal or otherwise of Dome Kwabenya Member of Parliament Sarah Adowa Safo.
The Speaker in his ruling said “The house is well within its right to receive and consider the report from the committee and make a determination.
“It is my ruling that motion be was rightfully admitted.”
Reacting to this, the lawyer explained that the ruling delivered by the speaker was sound and based on the purposive interpretation of Article 97 of the Constitution of Ghana.
He stated that the removal of an MP is a weighty matter and cannot be decided by only 31 members of the Privileges Committee of Parliament.
He noted that the decision to remove her should be considered by the entire House.
To him, the decision to remove her must not be done literally but with a purposive interpretation of the constitution of Ghana.
He wrote “I consider the ruling of the Rt Hon. Speaker of Parliament as a sound decision based on purposive interpretation of Article 97 of the Constitution. A removal of MP from Parliament is so weighty a matter to be decided exclusively by a 25-Member Privileges Committee. It must be a decision of the entire House, with the effort that literal interpretation must give way to a purposive interpretation approach.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
