Henry Nana Boakye, alias Nana B, has taken strong exception to comments made by Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, accusing him of misrepresenting constitutional requirements in defense of President Mahama.
Reacting to Ablakwa’s interview on Citi TV’s Point of View, Nana B said the minister “incoherently sought to justify” the government’s decision to accept deportees from other West African countries without parliamentary ratification.
According to him, Ablakwa wrongly argued that the arrangement was “just a Memorandum of Understanding” and therefore outside the scope of Article 75 of the constitution.
But Nana B pointed out that even after host Bernard Avle read out the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Gitmo 2 case, the minister “remained intransigently in this position.”
“The Attorney General and cabinet had no lawful basis to advise the execution and operationalization of that agreement in the face of the decision in the Gitmo 2 case,” he wrote.
Nana B argued that the highest court of the land had already settled the matter; “The Constitution makes no mention of any formal distinctions… despite the form in which it has been drafted… it is intended to create an obligation on the part of Ghana.”
He accused Ablakwa and the Mahama administration of attempting to “elevate the opinion of the Attorney General and discussions of Cabinet, above a binding precedent of the Supreme Court.”
By ignoring that precedent, Nana B said, “the President, Hon. Ablakwa, the Attorney General and the entire Cabinet have demonstrated reckless disregard for the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, the Parliament of Ghana, and the Supreme Court.”
