President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will leave for Monrovia this weekend for the investitute of George Oppong Weah as President of Liberia.
And with the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia also on medical leave in the United Kingdom (UK), Parliament is being recalled based on constitutional provision to swear the Speaker, Mike Ocquaye in as Acting President.
A statement signed by the 1st Deputy Speaker of Parliament indicated that "in exercise of the power conferred on the Speaker by Order 42(3) of the standing orders of the Parliament of Ghana, I, Honourable Joseph Osei-Owusu, first Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Pursuant to order 13(2) do hereby summon Parliament to sit on Sunday, 21st January, 2018 at half past two o’clock in the afternoon at Parliament House, Accra for the swearing in of the right Honourable Speaker as acting President of the Republic in accordance with article 60(11) and (12) of the 1992 constitution".
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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This should be a BIG lesson to Bloody Ghana Police. They release too much information to the media and the public relating to crime. Look at how the grenade issues were handled. Even going ahead to tell where they kept the grenades for safety. Are we ***barred word***? Showing criminals faces online when investigation into the matter is not complete. I wonder if they have a leader. You live and learn you morons.
Is it not dumb to swear in a president when the elected president is out of the country ? Does that mean he is not the president whilst outside. If he is still the president when representing Ghana as the leader of the nation then swearing in someone makes us have two presidents. Note that the Americans only swear in when their leader is incapacitated and not when he is out of the country even on vacation.
Oooh!Bawumia I feel sorry for you.This is elimination by rough tactics.You've shown your interest in the presidency too early.You've got to tread cautiously.You boost of good health care in Ghana why are you in the UK?What a "shithole" country.
ok my friend who works at the flags staff house told me that the reason why the meet the press by the president was rushed ealy was because of the vice president,he was not feeling well and they fear something bad will happen to him so i will keep the rest of the info....hmm
Poor barwumia, being used as sacrificial lamb.
don't we have qualified doctors to take of our presidents and vices when they are sick? do you see the reason why Donald Trump is insulting us? if we equipped our hospitals with all the equipments will they be travelling with the little money we have that needs to be invested
that portion in the constitution is as ***barred word*** and usele.ss as anything . it must not stay in the constitution again. it must be reshaped that, in the absence of the prez and vice for over 6 months be it sickness or anything abnormal, is when the speaker must act. just 2 days absence we spending over a Gh1m FOR MPS to fly to accra, arent we always boosting of democracy, what is the fear for, military or what. even right at office, the so called appointees (military) of mugabe hijacked him so is there any good use or meaning of that portion in the constitution?