What is the role of our first Lady? - Obodai

Mr Samuel Obodai, NPP-Agona West, on Tuesday demanded of President John Agyekum Kufuor what role he wanted his wife to play in national affairs.

"In the past, one could not tell whether the First Lady was a shadow President so we are lost on the role of the present First Lady."

Mr Obodai, who was contributing to the debate on the president's State of the Nation Address, said Ghanaians have resolved to have "a government of the people and by the people and not a government for a man and his wife".

He said the President did not dwell so much on other organs of state and constitutional bodies in his address because of his belief in constitutionalism. The Member said the former government cowed the Judiciary thus making them virtual servants.

Mr Obodai said during the PNDC days, the slaying of the three judges silenced the Judiciary while acts of intimidation under the NDC cowed it. "Those who were supposed to be the keeper of the poor man in the absence of a legislature were silenced."