LIVESTREAMED: Supreme Court hears Speaker Bagbin's application on declaration of vacant seats

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  • JJ 1 year ago

    These Supreme Court Justice that are being used by Akufo Addo should be very very careful because history can always repeat itself they should remember the horrible experience of those whose statues are infront of the Supreme ...
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  • Pelicles 1 year ago

    Then what? Killing those Judges deposited a million dollars into your bank account, isn't it? Invoking those pathetic memories says a lot about who you are because what crime did those Judges commit for your party honchos to ...
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  • FRANKIE 1 year ago

    As a layman, my understanding of ARTICLE 97 CLAUSES (G) & (H) below ref MPs settles the matter beyond every reasonable doubt.
    Why the Supreme Court needs to interprete this simply beats my imagination.

    ARTICLE 97, CLAUSES ...
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  • Kwaku 1 year ago

    @ FRANKIE
    Pls allow the SC to do the explanation to us we are all laymen. Some of our so called accomplished lawyers are even struggling to explain it.

  • TRUTH 1 year ago

    If you struggle with this simple words, then you should never have been a lawyer.

    I don't blame you, for years, we have used nepotism, and school favouritism to put round pegs in square holes and now we can not read simple ...
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  • Hhh 1 year ago

    Hmmmm

  • Dungeon Master 1 year ago

    Frankie, I think the NPP has an issue with your interpretation because of a technicality: your use of the pronoun "he." They may possibly think it applies to men and cross-dressing men and not real women, hence their inabilit ...
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  • Sheikh 1 year ago

    NOW! This is PURE NONSENSE. Do you know that? 'Supreme Court' issues a stay of an issue, Speaker dislikes it, so he files a vacation with the same 'Supreme Court'? Am I the only one? Do you think the 'Supreme Court' would sho ...
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  • Joko 1 year ago

    It is not simple . The clause was to prevent cross carpeting . What constitutes cross carpeting was a situation where an elected MP decides to switch sides in Parliament . Example id Akuffo Addo and the NPP wanted to strength ...
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  • TRUTH 1 year ago

    Was the Fomena NPP MP cross carpeting in 2020 and on which article did Prof Aquaye remove him from parliament?

  • Joko 1 year ago

    The Fomena MP did not cross carpet in Parliament . Mike Ocquaye was wrong in his interpretation. Also he overstepped his authority as a Speaker because his role is to moderate exchanges in Parliament but not to interpret cons ...
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  • Wwwe 1 year ago

    Kwasiman ofuibiba go back to school and learn social studies hmmm ofui

  • Jealousy 1 year ago

    I don't know whether u wrote those thrash from ur anus. Foolish man. If Ato Forson was guilty, u think that ur Akufo Addo's court would have vindicated him?..moron

  • TRUTH 1 year ago

    Because they would have set a very bad precedent.

    You guys don't understand how the constitutional provision of causing financial loss to the state is a bad law.
    That law would bring Chao in Ghana one day before we learn ...
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  • Slow 1 year ago

    It is not about winning, it is about holding fidelity to the law and enforce same irrespective of who is involved. The facts and truth must always prevail so we all have confidence in the courts. The courts also must be consi ...
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  • Observer 1 year ago

    Man does not live by the millions in his account alone. A good name is better than riches

  • Mustapha 1 year ago

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    Bawumia is bringing problems to Ghanaians.
    Bawumia is the king of terrorist.
    Bawumia will turn Ghana into islamic state by force.
    Bawumi ...
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  • Kk 1 year ago

    Say it again ohh , they have forgotten that history can repeat itself

  • Enyo 1 year ago

    For lack of knowledge, fools such as you misinform and make stupid statements. Listen to the law being argued, even with your prejudiced mind, just listen and don’t be fooled by your incompetent leaders!! The law is the law ...
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  • Kojo 1 year ago

    GHANAIANS MUST COME OUT IN THEIR NUMBERS ON 7TH DECEMBER TO LIBERATE THIS COUNTRY. THE ARROGANCE IS TOO MUCH. WE CANNOT BEAR THIS ANY LONGER BEYOND DECEMBER 7TH. CHECKS AND BALANCES? WHERE FROM THIS ERRORS IMPRESSION THAT THE ...
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  • ERIC 1 year ago

    when the law catches up with you ,then you would understand your foolishness.

  • Citizen8 1 year ago

    @JJ you aren't even ashamed to be talking like this. You guys take pride in slaying other human beings just because you hold contrary views to their rulings. But let me remind you that we're in the 3rd decade of the 21st cent ...
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  • Paa Kwesi in The Bronx 1 year ago

    You said it right. It is time their children give them good advice to read and say the law. As a young adult, I noted what happened in the early 80. It was bad, but what was the root cause? I do not want to see the children a ...
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  • ERIC 1 year ago

    At times i struggle to understand ndc and their foolishness.they cant even differentiate passing laws in parliament and interpretation of they laws that they foolishly passed.when it comes to the interpretation of the law its ...
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  • Kojo 1 year ago

    YOU THIS FOOLISH ERIC, DONT COMPLAIN TOMORROW IF THE SAME LAW IS USED AGAINST YOU AND YOUR PAY MASTERS. I WILL DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AT ANY TIME. MUST SOMEONE USE POLITICAL PARTY EMOTIONS TO INTERPRET THE LAW? YOU ARE VERY ...
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  • Kojo opare 1 year ago

    Yur mother ok

  • Observer 1 year ago

    Imagine that anytime there is a conflict in parliament, someone runs to court. Then what will be the use of the speaker.

  • Kwaku 1 year ago

    Supreme Court do not entertain flimsy cases.You will be fine if you dare waste their time.

  • Citizen8 1 year ago

    @Observer, please to where are you expecting them to run, apart from the Court of Law? Or you would prefer that MPs fight in Parliament? Come on, the Speaker isn't infallible, he can make mistakes. And it's only decent that a ...
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  • Citizen 1 year ago

    So let there be fairness. For how long has SALL been without representation in parliament. Why is that not equally a burning issue for the SC and the CJ

  • El chapo 1 year ago

    What is all this fooling for. What st all is the Supreme Court going to hear??? This government has become so stupid with dumbest indoctrinated animals who see, white an education as supreme than common sense. This is the sam ...
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  • Musa 1 year ago

    Haha true true talk paaa

  • El chapo 1 year ago

    See this fool called king is that u ban people and tribal group?? Are u OK in the head. U saying will escalate everything. U are so stupid. Did u bring land with u when. U were born.

  • CJ 1 year ago

    The Supreme Court ruling will not change because of pride. They will not swallow their pride. Mark it

  • GYAISAYOR 1 year ago

    ARE WE SURE ,FAIR JUDGEMENT WILL HAPPEN TODAY? I DON'T THINK SO

  • Akyem sakawa Mafia 1 year ago

    They are bent on using supreme court to declare Bawumia president in 2025

  • Why are they sitting on this and not afenyo case or lgbt 1 year ago

    They choose and pick keke..

  • Asanco 1 year ago

    NDC with their ignorance always insult come to America when supreme courts speaks parliament can not change it it only in Ghana that every idiot d sad it on tv and condemn the highest court

  • El chapo 1 year ago

    That is why in America u have a fully grown man with beard saying he is female. Because ur supreme court is the most useless and nonsensical court ever to exist. Donkey this is Africa

  • Slow 1 year ago

    The supreme Court of America uphold the laws not the unanimous fc we have here. Stop comparing American judicial system with what we have and practice here.

  • Poor GBC 1 year ago

    Watching GTV and very depressing. Poor English expressions and narration. As if the presenters are trainees.

  • Oklemekuku 1 year ago

    Unanimous FC anaa?

  • BOY KOFI 1 year ago

    The Supreme Court will adjourn the case today but ask the Speaker to recall Parliament as soon as possible.
    That is how mafia Supreme Court operates.Tnx.

  • FunnyGhana 1 year ago

    Let us wait for unanimous verdict dismissing Bagbin application. It is obvious that the executive and SC seems to have become one and the same looking at the speed at which they heard and ruled on Afenyo Markin filing in the ...
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  • Pelicles 1 year ago

    When the same court freed Ato Forson, did you vent your anger on them?

  • FunnyGhana 1 year ago

    Could you cite a SC case in which filing, empanneling, hearing and ruling were all done in the same afternoon.

  • Pelicles 1 year ago

    Hire lawyers and mount a challenge. If parliament is not working, what are some of the implications facing the nation, and can't the court give it a priority?

  • TRUMU TRUMU AKUFFO ADDO 1 year ago

    MADAM GERTRUDE TORKENOO IS VERY STUPID. AKUFFO ADDO HAS BEEN FUCKING HER ARSE. WHY HAS SHE IGNORED THE LGBT BILL FOR SO LONG BUT IS BENT TO SORT OUT THIS PARLIAMENT CASE FIRST?. WE ALL KNOW SUPREME COURT WILL RULE IN FAVOUR O ...
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  • Latif 1 year ago

    It will always end up by premium unanimous decision 4 4 2

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  • Bastie Tutu Asantefournhyinaahene 1 year ago

    Nana Gayaddo has packed the courts with his cronies. Such a stupid country

  • Asantehene 1 year ago

    So these are the only judges at the supreme court? Eiii CJ I will chase if government change and this is not a threat but a promise

  • Asantehene 1 year ago

    Dame is a bomb

  • Leo 1 year ago

    Per what the constitution stipulates, and also considering other legislative instruments in parliament, it is clear that, the speaker; Alban Bagbin, was 100% right in his ruling. Hence involving the supreme court in this iss ...
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  • Appiah Kubi 1 year ago

    You guys are fun do you think the court doesn't know the law

  • Nana 1 year ago

    Unanimous Fc will not disappoint us at all

  • Asantehene 1 year ago

    UNANIMOUS FCCCCCCCC!!!!!!!@@@@CJ!!!!!!

  • Anonymous Fc 1 year ago

    Please let us not waste our time, we know the outcome.

  • Asantehene 1 year ago

    This judgement CJ is going to read was written yesterday but they will waste everybody's time as if they are now busy writing it, tweaaa

  • Ataala 1 year ago

    Rawlings did a great job putting bullet in them fools head

  • Myopic thinking! 1 year ago

    The NDC majority should hold their grounds and not to allow the NPP and its appendage, “the unanimous FC” to have their way.
    This CJ needs to be removed from office asap.

  • CJ does not know the law 1 year ago

    She keeps asking for the lawyer to repeat his views or the position of the law. You could sense disagreement in her voice, signalling her ignorance!

  • Kwame 1 year ago

    Parliament under Iddrisu and Muntaka on the NDC side was very weak . They allowed the Electoral Commission to disenfrachise SALL for 4 years and blithely allowed government business to go on. Again they allowed Assin North t ...
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  • Yaw 1 year ago

    The speaker of Parliament thinks he powerful than everyone. He has met his match. He must be removed.

  • BULLET 1 year ago

    Speaker of Parliament is too much power conscious, he has seen his level now, will he resigned?Now that he has been brought low by the Supreme Court.

  • Righteous 1 year ago

    The cj is behaving like a mini god. It is annoying listening to her. She must be asked to go on permanent leave sine die when power changes hands.

  • AFEDE 1 year ago

    THIS TIME ABAN BAGBIN IS A POTENTIAL CANDIDATE FOR JAIL IF HE RAISE HIS MUSCLES AGAIN BY REFUSING TO COMPLY THE SUPREME COURT ORDERS

  • Nii Adjei sowa 1 year ago

    Supreme Court of NPP

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    Democracy, is not good for Ghana.
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  • We need a sincere millitary officer 1 year ago

    Hey guys don't worry we're coming soon to give you the interpretation of the articles with our guns in Achimota Forest and Teshie Range.

  • TT 1 year ago

    I can bet my last penny that this case will not see conclusion before election.

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  • Joseph Twumasi 1 year ago

    The interpretation of Article 97 is still pending. So what the Article implies is yet to decided. The hearing of this issue is scheduled for November 11. What the SC said today was that the affected MPs shall continue to hold ...
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