When Parliament didn’t sit for a few days, the Chief Justice called it a constitutional crisis. She’s leading a panel of judges to expedite the case brought to the apex court by the aggrieved NPP side in Parliament.
When the same Parliament passed a bill in February, and the President refused to receive it for signing into law, the Supreme Court is taking forever to settle that case before it. Proponents of the law recently protested against the delay in hearing that case.
In the NPP’s parliamentary case, the same court is sprinting.
What is the point in declaring a constitutional crisis over lack of parliamentary proceedings when the outcome of parliamentary proceedings is ignored by the executive and the judiciary doesn’t see it fit to expeditiously resolve the matter brought before it?
Two months to the next election, it is unacceptable that a constituency would not have an MP, but Ghana seems okay that the people of SALL have not had representation in parliament for FOUR YEARS. The court case relating to that matter is dragging at the pace of a wounded snail.
The average Ghanaian with some modicum of honesty in their blood would agree that if SALL had been an NPP stronghold, it would not have gone four years without an MP. The Electoral Commission would have completed all legal processes to pave the way for an election there.
This justice system is worse than the constitutional crisis in Parliament. Those chiding the Speaker of Parliament should equally be worried about Ghana’s judiciary and the conduct of institutions of the state that are supposed to be independent.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Manasseh Azure Awuni
