Bagbin's declaration of four seats vacant sets dangerous precedent – Kwaku Azar

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  • Cooleyhai 1 year ago

    Verily verily I say unto ye sincerely that Ghanaians have no sense, no balls and no love for their country. That's why akuffo Addo and Bawumia and their akyem sakawa criminal cartel have not been ousted and dealt with one by ...
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  • Kay 1 year ago

    Stupidity abounds in NDC.No wonder the observation by many Ghanaians is NDC is for the Senseless.

  • OSABARIMA MENSA 1 year ago

    BINbag, the sister in law shagger should be arrested for staging a coup d'etat in parliament. How could he declare MP's seats vacant if they have been elected to serve a term of 4years? Anyone associated with the buga buga pa ...
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  • Zingaro 1 year ago

    Kwaseato bodambo! You are asking your questions as if your crooked and fraudulent Mike Ocquaye is dead. Foolish boy... drop the wee in your hands and go and ask your questions at Mike Ocquaye's residence. He is the architect ...
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  • Atsu, Ho 1 year ago

    Oquay's problem is his own problem but I thought Alban was a more level headed person

  • Errortorial Commission of Ghana -EC 1 year ago

    The precedent was not set by SK Bagbin but by Prof Mike Oquaye in the 7th parliament!

  • SAEED OSMAN 1 year ago

    How are they suppose to know this history when those who come here and insult the NDC are always busy doing shoe shine at kejetia.

  • Athena- US 1 year ago

    Your foolishness is legendary

  • Look 1 year ago

    It doesn't take a senseless party to do this but rather it must take a very intelligent and smart people to outwit an entire government. Go and do your homework well.

  • Ghana Sun Tzu 1 year ago

    Keep calm, the court has this

  • Athena- US 1 year ago

    Did you forget to take your medication?

  • AGATAPORE(SANDEMA) 1 year ago

    BUT YOUR FATHER IS A NDC. IS YOUR FATHER SENSELESS?

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  • Frankiedonatusjudasarefools 1 year ago

    The speaker is the most useless of all speakers Ghana has had.
    Clearly, the members are still in Parliament and have not resigned from the party.

    There is absolute wisdom in the law and the import of the law should infor ...
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  • @Godisking 1 year ago

    Were you in Ghana in 2020? Same situation in parliament and nobody asked whether or not it's legal or otherwise. Same stick used to whipped James is being used to cajole Jesse.

  • Atsu, Ho 1 year ago

    It was never the same situation. In the 2020 situation the party wrote to the Speaker that the MP was no longer a member of the party. Who told the Speaker this time thst they have changed allegiance in the current parliamen ...
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  • Bobby Stones 1 year ago

    What difference doest make, semantics. An MP raised the issue or a party wrote to inform and the Speaker ruled. Either way , it all leads to the same results, they've crossed carpet.

  • The Bagbinian Doctrine 1 year ago

    The Bagbinian doctrine amounts to an arbitrary and excessive abusive of power. The speaker will not even give the majority the right to be heard without any interruption. The fact that elections cannot be held by law to cure ...
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  • Dunn 1 year ago

    What are you smoking? Who’s the leader in parliament? Mind you, when the speaker makes a judgement, no one can challenge it. He’s the leader in parliament, yet, he gave Afenyo to speak only for him to misbehave.

    Why a ...
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  • TRUMU TRUMU AKUFFO ADDO 1 year ago

    DID YOU WRITE SAME WHEN THE NPP SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT IN THE PREVIOUS PARLIAMENT APPLIED THIS SAME LAW?.

  • Chief Justice 1 year ago

    So can’t you reason that the two cases are different? Oh reasoning in NDC is very low. Please note that the mps involved have not resigned, all that they are doing now is not for this parliament but rather the next parliame ...
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  • Ellis 1 year ago

    I was going to offer you some simple explanation until I realized that you are the head of that criminal and unconscionable Supreme Court, and you are serving as the Chief Justice for our famous UNANIMOUS FC.

  • Bright Vanchasse 1 year ago

    Once you file and submit to EC on a different ticket, you can't continue to work with them. Get it right.

  • Dunn 1 year ago

    Do you know what you’re talking about? Can you listen to yourself? Foolish thoughts clouding your reasoning .

    What does the constitution of NPP says? If you don’t know, lemme tell you now!

    Now listen to sense!

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  • Yaw 1 year ago

    Has anyone written to the speaker that they have resigned from their Party's you people don't read to understand this will not win power for NDC are we going to have by-election

  • BOY KOFI 1 year ago

    Speak to the law not to the Speaker because his declaration is not wrong according to the law.Tnx.

  • Atsu, Ho 1 year ago

    And what do you see when you read the law? The key us changing alliance and have they done thst? The answer is obviously NO

  • Star from the North 1 year ago

    Anyone who has problems with the speaker ruling probably needs his or her brain checked. The speaker doesn’t have to wait for anybody to write to the house before any action is taken. In fact the constitution allows any mem ...
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  • Donatus 1 year ago

    I beg to differ, Prof Kwaku Azar.

  • TRUMU TRUMU AKUFFO ADDO 1 year ago

    CHIEF JUSTICE- THE NPP STOOGE, ARE YOU EDUCATED AT ALL?. YOU BEHAVE LIKE WONTUMI AND ABRONYE.

  • Nakwakwa 1 year ago

    You're on point Senior

  • ROGUE LAWYER 1 year ago

    Kwaku -Azar is getting it wrong on this.
    Asaima first breached the trust of the people who elected him as an independent member of parliament. have you consider the social contracts the MPs has with the people who elected t ...
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  • Sarah Anang 1 year ago

    A very good thought.

  • Dunn 1 year ago

    Kept asking myself same question.

    The Fomena MP should be disqualified for standing indecent and coming back to run on NPP’s ticket. Thought their constitution stated a member who switches allegiance is automatically no ...
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  • Jomo 1 year ago

    The precedence was set by Mike Ocquaye and at the time there was nothing wrong with it. Let set good precedence then.

  • Nabilla 1 year ago

    In the case of Mike Oquaye, the said MP was forced by the MP to resign from the party.. NDC is confused.. None of the 4 MPs broke ties with their parties unlike 2020..

  • BOY KOFI 1 year ago

    Are you from Mars or Jupiter?
    The moment you file as independent candidate,you are no longer a member of your former party.You can't pretend to sit in parliament with a group you don't belong to or have any ties with.The Spe ...
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  • Atsu, Ho 1 year ago

    Which law is your reference for this hasty conclusion that as soon as you file ..

  • Agya Yaw 1 year ago

    Bagbin is not a qualified person to a speaker of parliament he is being control by NDC and they just want the Government to be unpopular to the citizens for them to vote against Bawumiah but let me warn them the Almighty Yahw ...
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  • Dunn 1 year ago

    You are a bad citizen. Very bad one. You don’t want to see Ghana grow.

  • ROB 1 year ago

    A.S. K. BAGBIN KNOWS NEXT TO NOTHING BUT A POLITICAL IDIOT. SOMETIMES WHEN YOU ARE COMPLETELY CONSUMED AND TAINTED WITH POLITICAL BIAS YOU ACT AS IF YOU HAVE NO BRAINS. THAT IS SOME NDC PARTY POLITICIANS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS ...
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  • Don 1 year ago

    This twisting of the law is just to palliate the pain of the disillusioned NPP supporters.
    How's it that a declaration of an intent and filling of nomination is not a severance of an alliance? There's no law that holds anyon ...
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  • Pelicles 1 year ago

    Here is my simple question to the Speaker. Are the affected MPs still in parliament, if yes, are they going to be stopped from entering the house if they resume?

    There is not a single human in NDC that uses his/her brain ...
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  • T-22 1 year ago

    If I were your mother, I will grind pepper and akakaduro, and fill a bentoa to give you three hot purges. Your brain has stopped working at the moment

  • Prisons office 1 year ago

    True he fool

  • Gamble 1 year ago

    For the first time Kwakye Azar has spoken sense

  • Dey 1 year ago

    .Nnp constitution says once you declare to become an independent candidate, you cease to be a member of the party

  • DEEVINITY 1 year ago

    Aaron Ocquaye SET THAT DANGEROUS PRECEDENT!!!!! These idiots are only drinking from the chalice they themselves poisoned!!!!

  • DEEVINITY 1 year ago

    Aaron Ocquaye SET THAT DANGEROUS PRECEDENT!!!!! These idiots are only drinking from the chalice they themselves poisoned!!!! We must never repudiate the LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES. GOOD INTENT FOR THE GOOD OF ALL MUST UND ...
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  • Citizen8 1 year ago

    @Deevinity, kindly help me understand something. Is precedence law and is it binding?

  • DEEVINITY 1 year ago

    Was it law when it it carried during Ocquaye's stint as speaker????

  • Dan 1 year ago

    It's a good decision so that no mp or party decides to do anything anytime. Already some of them are arrogant

  • William 1 year ago

    There's nothing to see here.!!
    When you have a constitution written the way it is....and make no mistake, the Speaker of the House,before any announcement was made.....re> seats declared vacant in Parliament..
    Would have s ...
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  • Zigi 1 year ago

    The lesson in this unfortunate incident for npp is to stop doing dirty jobs like removal of EC chairperson, Staffing of EC with die hearted and core NPP supporters
    manipulation and over staffing of courts, sacking AUDITOR G ...
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  • Achakanapaya 1 year ago

    Yes , So who started that in the same parliament????
    The speaker just used the same yard stick Michael Queye did . Piriod.

  • Omar 1 year ago

    This not USA we are in Ghana and the country has his own laws

  • Pastor Nii 1 year ago

    If the Speaker does not let the MPs who became independent vacate their seats, what is the purpose of the law that the speaker used to let them go? If they don't vacate their seats, the law is then meaningless. Our minds are ...
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  • Boni Yankey : Back With a Bang !! 1 year ago

    Kwaku Azar made some robust and indeed, persuasive arguments. He somewhat, subjected
    Speaker Gbagbin's ruling to rigorous academic , cognitive analysis, demonstrating admirable prowess of ratiocination. However, Professor e ...
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  • Alfa 1 year ago

    The precedent had already been set by the former speaker, Mike Acquaye.

  • Capt. Adabuga 1 year ago

    Let us all be patient until we hear from St. ABK Amidu

  • The Devil’s Advocate 1 year ago

    The precedent was set by Mike Ocquaye.
    So please don’t blame Bagbin.Blame the NPP gang of looters and Mr Ocquaye who was probably doing their bidding

  • Kofi Ghanaba 1 year ago

    I knew Alban Bag In The Bin will do some gymnastics one way or the other.He is a cadre of Rawlings regime and an NDC man.I once saw him at a barbers shop opposite Papaye Osu.He was criticizing the NPP.He has made a coup.When ...
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  • Patriot 1 year ago

    The Supreme Court should hear this case immediately. There is a weighty issue of legitimate dispute here and the Court must therefore settle the intent of the law, and to not deprive citizens of the affected constituencies of ...
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  • ISSAH Mohammed Ikilil.(Ibn-Trawaray) 1 year ago

    I believe,Professor Azar knows how grounded Speaker ASK Bagbin is in parliamentary practice and in law. He is the speaker in the 4th Republic whose inclination to party is less than his quest for institutional development of ...
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  • Truth 1 year ago

    Some people are comparing Mike Quaye's own to this ruling! We shouldn't forget the party wrote to the speaker to make that seat vacant because they believe the person wasn't part of them. We should stop our stupid and useless ...
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  • Osei 1 year ago

    You have a the brain of a sheep. I don't blame you and sadly the matter is still centered around that evil Asiamah of fomena.

    Bagbin has been very good to nnp in so many instances but because he he could help this time you ...
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  • Prosper Azamati 1 year ago

    This soo called professor pretend to know everything

  • Bongo 1 year ago

    This Asare man thinks he is the law in Ghana.

  • Kwame Peter 1 year ago

    The path ASK Bagbin has chosen in concert with NDC Leaders is calculated to cause confusion and make the country ungovernable because of their quest for power but they have shot themselves in the foot.The speaker shall presid ...
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  • Man 1 year ago

    The precedence has been set by the NPP, now the table has turned and they are complaining. You reap what you sow, what is good for the geese is good for the gander. Stop Crying and correct your mistakes.

  • K B 1 year ago

    I disagree with Prof. Kweku Azar. The precedent, if indeed dangerous, has been set already. Again, it is misleading to say the Speakers Ruling breaches fundamental freedom of Association. The Speaker’s Ruling should not lea ...
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  • James 1 year ago

    The speaker has disgraced himself....and he will stay in our annals as the most disgraceful speaker in Ghana

  • Athena- US 1 year ago

    Is it because of the number or it's unconstitutional?
    All lawyers are criminals.

  • Rexford Adu 1 year ago

    The Constitution is written in the Present Tense.but not in Future Tense.

  • Ben 1 year ago

    He followed a present, he didn't set it!

  • GOD IS GOOD 1 year ago

    KWEKU AZAR WHAT WAS YOUR ADVICE TO MIKE OCQUAYE WHEN HE FIRST DECLEARED SOME SEATS VACANT WHEN SOME MP'S WENT INDEPENDENT DURING HIS ERA??

  • Red 1 year ago

    Bagbin dangerous to Ghana,s democracy

  • Kojo Bonsoe 1 year ago

    How can these people run on the tickets of parties they do not belong to. There's no future switch here lawyer

  • Ewvevi 1 year ago

    You are a very big fool, kwaku azar. Don't you understand simple english as it appears in the constitution of 1992? Yakame.

  • Mary- Ho public toilet 1 year ago

    O Ayigbes! This also needs insults?

  • Integrity 1 year ago

    The same Constitution demands that when an MP cross carpet or change party either than the ticket on which he or her came into parliament shall cease to hold himself or herself as MP in parliament. These so called Professors ...
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  • Unbeatable 1 year ago

    Where were you in 2020 when Mike declared same? Shut up and suffer

  • Edward 1 year ago

    It's good. It's a test of democracy so let's see how it goes

  • Yaw 1 year ago

    Is Bagbin going to take Asiamah's seat from him as an independent mp or what. All this tricks by the ndc and his stooges will not win them power from demonstration to parliament

  • Musa 1 year ago

    Prof, u are wrong this time round. The constitution makes it very clear in this regard as espoused by the previous speaker and same set as a precedence. When it happened at the time u were quiet. I think karma is pulling the ...
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  • Kweku Azar. ....your statements are contradictory 1 year ago

    Wisdom is the application of knowledge in the right circumstances. Your earlier submissions address the matter in my opinion an appropriate way. However this your recent statement is contradictory to the fundamental truth and ...
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  • Observer 1 year ago

    Are you the only stranger in Ghana. When the people of SALL were prevented by the EC from voting in 2020, what happened to the provision of giving them a hearing. When Nana Addo sacked Afoko and others, what happened to the N ...
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  • Mgbeogo 1 year ago

    Fantastic lawyer by all standards.

  • Osei 1 year ago

    You dangerous lawyer. What about Mike Ocquaye's?

  • Liber8 1 year ago

    So Mr know all.
    Are these MPs campaigning for their current affiliates or campaigning on the ticket of the next parliament they are filling for?

    Their allegiance have shifted, they're only pretending in parliament. They ...
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  • Errortorial Commission of Ghana -EC 1 year ago

    The precedent was not set by SK Bagbin but by Prof Mike Oquaye in the 7th parliament

  • Castro 1 year ago

    Karma is a bitch!

  • THIEF OF BAGDAD 1 year ago

    I think this Azar guy is part of illiterate Akyim mafias did he understand constitution at all. Àkufo Addo can rule with his criminal thinking but remember that the law of the land is superior over everything.

  • Jb 1 year ago

    Parliament will be chaotic if elected members are allowed to do spider web in parliament. Today, they are here, tomorrow there. What happens to the 4year contract they hard with the constituents? No penalty? Come again, Azar.

  • Opanin 1 year ago

    How? Did he violate the law?

  • Bibini 1 year ago

    GET AWAY!
    Did you feel the same way when Mike Oquaye did similar? What makes you think the way you think? That the NPP can misbehave, with no consequences, but the NDC should play second fiddle? Did he do anything wrong? Di ...
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  • Errortorial Commission of Ghana -EC 1 year ago

    Ewifo(E)-levy must be repealed and sent to the motherfucker mother serpent of corruption Nana Addo asap for signing!

  • Critical 1 year ago

    Are Ghanaian seeing the type of person bagbin is
    U think ndc leaders were fools wen they rejected him as presidential or vice candidate he is arrogant selfish power drunk and stupid

  • Ga Nyobi 1 year ago

    Hypocrites !! , All these NPP fools didn't come and comment when the former speaker declared Fomena Mp's seat vacant , all of a sudden when the same rules are applied to NPP Mp's then it's a problem. When can we have honest p ...
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  • Ntente 1 year ago

    Where were you Kwaku when Speaker Prof Mike Oquaye gave his ruling in 2020.
    So please shut up or speak something better.

  • Dadekro 1 year ago

    The Supreme Court's interpretation of Article 97 will be just what Kwaku Azar has so succinctly explained. This is obvious to any legal mind. Bagbin was wrong. The Supreme Court's ruling will make Bagbin's ruling redundant.

  • Queen 1 year ago

    Bagbin, the man who sleeps with his sister in law. The man who spends Thousands of Dollars to treat himself in Foreign Countries. Bagbin, you're CRAZT for making STUPID decisions in Parliament because you are NDC. NO SENSIBLE ...
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  • ABREWA 1 year ago

    Now you are seeing how useless the NDC party is ?
    Parliament should declare Speaker’s seat vacant too.

  • Nonsense 1 year ago

    Stop the stupidity.