Mahama and Naana Jane's absence from Ghana is breach of the constitution - Effah Darteh

This article is closed for comments.

Read Comments Comments (105)

  • Okyere J. 10 months ago

    Where is the speaker of parliament. ?is he not around?

  • THIS MAN DIE3 GYIMIII NKOAAA 10 months ago

    ANOTHER GYIMII AND HYPOCRITE. FAKE CORRUPT MAN

  • Karikakchar 10 months ago

    Some of these vacuums are created only in the minds of lawyers. If the law is that the president is unable to perform his duties then with modern means of communication that's not ever going to happen unless both are unconsci ...
    read full comment

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 10 months ago

    ##SAMMY GYAMFI DISHING OUT DOLLARS ON THE STREETS OF GHANA????????OTHER COUNTRIES SEEING THIS WILL RIDICULE US. IT IS A BIG DISGRACE TO GHANA TO SEE OUR POLITICIAN IN SUCH DESPICABLE ACT!!!! HE WAS RIDING IN OVER 150 THOUSAND ...
    read full comment

  • DECEPTIVE HEADLINE, GHANAEB SACK THE USELESS JOURNALIST 10 months ago

    When you look at the insulting comments it stems from the fact that most of them just read headlines and comment. When you read what the lawyer said it is very factual and sensible, if the Speaker has to act he must be sworn ...
    read full comment

  • Vanchasse 10 months ago

    I agree with you but I disagree with the term "you NDC people". I am a sympathizer of the current NDC party but I know that should be the right thing to do.

  • Jake 10 months ago

    Was there a time the CJ (jezebel Torkornoo) ever sore in Mr. Bagbin? there were several instances that both the president and his vice were not in yet the Speaker was not sworn-in. Stop your foolishness.

  • moongod 10 months ago

    ignore cockroach effah dartey

  • Citizen 10 months ago

    Kindly remind me of one instance that both the Former President and his Vice were absent.
    Thank you

  • Oklemekuku 10 months ago

    The acting Chief Justice can swear in the Speaker, if swearing in is your concern. We were all here when at a point in time both Akuffo Addo and Bawumia were outside the country. Your beloved Effah- Darteh is a kokoase lawyer

  • George 10 months ago

    This is the foolishness I hate about we Ghanaians. The fact that it has happened before (the President and the VP absent at the same time and someone acting on their behalf without being sworn in) does not mean that it is rig ...
    read full comment

  • Ujah 10 months ago

    Well n that is the foolishness I hate in Ghana the very important 31st July is silenced because of politics but some useless western culture celebration become something important that deserves the president presence. How abo ...
    read full comment

  • KingB Aflao 10 months ago

    Say again ooo my brother. The man was clear in his statement. All he said was the fact.

  • Agyenim K. 10 months ago

    This is a great shame for Ghanaians. An illegal regime is applying the most unjust constitution on the African continent to its opponents. A regime that has bought all the media and Agradaa to satisfy its most odious needs.

  • Abronomaa 10 months ago

    As for that electoral pain you received, it is only God who can heal you. Hehehehe.....

  • Santa J. 10 months ago

    Haha, election pain, you think? just take off your opaque glasses for just one day and you will see how incompetent and useless Mahama is.

  • You think your single vote did the trick? 10 months ago

    Idiots like you bring down parties

  • Ujah 10 months ago

    Yes Mahama is useless to you people who are half Ghanaian , half African, us for hundred percent Ghanaians who are African, they know what he is. Besides JDM needs competent Ghanaians to judge him not some bunch irresponsible ...
    read full comment

  • Santa J. 10 months ago

    Haha, election pain, you think, just take off your opaque glasses for just one day and you will see how incompetent and useless Mahama is.

  • Kofi, USA 10 months ago

    If you can't express your opinion without insults, then you need a mental checkup.

  • Alan Gyimi Gyimi kyeremanteng 10 months ago

    I TOLD U NPP = NKWASIAFUO PEOPLE'S PARTY. UMOUFIA CARTOONS CONCERT CATHEDRAL

  • Nauseating Phosphorus Party(npp). Blood-Sucker Bandits 10 months ago

    Is that what you learnt in Ghana Military Academy, Sandhurst and all your noisy kwakwa labiitey schools? About leadership? And its vacuum? Was any gap created. Speak to the filthy mess of npp and akufo-addo instead.

  • THEY DO NOT STAY FOR PROLONGED PERIODS IN THE MESS THEY'VE CAUSEF IN GHANA. 10 months ago

    THEY DO NOT STAY FOR PROLONGED PERIODS IN THE MESS THEYVE CAUSED IN BANKRUPT BACKWARD GHANA.

    PLUS, GHANA'S LEADERS ALWAYS TRAVEL ANYWHERE FREE AT THE POOR BANKRUPT GHANAIAN TAXPAYERS EXPENSE, SO THEY DO NOT GIVE A DAMN.
    ...
    read full comment

  • Pat 10 months ago

    Some people just want to be relevant in the media.

  • Ghana Army 10 months ago

    Masa, go and seat somewhere.
    You’re irrelevant now

  • Lori 10 months ago

    Oldman struggles to stay relevant for young etwe.

  • Unpredictable Oye Onye Kwasi Atta 10 months ago

    I read everything searching for the exact constitutional breaches but found none. Perhaps he has been infected by the infectious Akufo Addo's Akyempanzee stupidity since 2015. Afoko and Kwabena Agyapong are right

  • GH8 10 months ago

    Did you read the whole story and still didn't see the constitutional breach? Then I m sorry you are really silly. If this happened during Akufo-Addo's regime I m sure you would be here raving and ranting like a mad dog. See h ...
    read full comment

  • Zom 10 months ago

    Show the breach in the story

  • Kofi 10 months ago

    @Zom. I don't think one should waste time debating with people like you.

  • SURVIVAL. 10 months ago

    I remmember Akuffo Addo and Bawumia were absent and the speaker of Parliament then Prof.Quaye took over affairs.

  • Oklemekuku 10 months ago

    Thank you mate

  • Oklemekuku 10 months ago

    It happened, both Akuffo Addo and Bawumia were once abroad. Don't be a hypocrite

  • Nana 10 months ago

    But the Speaker was sworn-in on that occasion. Check Graphic online Sunday Jan 21, 2018

  • Daakyehene 10 months ago

    Where was the old fashioned Effa when Akufo Addo visited Bawumia in London when he( Bawumia) was admitted and receiving medical treatment?

  • Snyder 10 months ago

    You idiot of incomprehensible magnitude seriously need brain transplant. Ofui

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 10 months ago

    Either you go to court or you go do demonstration. Ugly, useless, senseless, shameless, gormless, ignorant and primitive fool. Kwasiaa buuluubuuluuu.

  • Raspopo 10 months ago

    He just want attention !!!!!

  • JUSTRAC AFRICA LTD 10 months ago

    Promote your business with our result oriented QUALITY website design/development. Cost: 1,500Gh. Call/WhatsApp us; 0501796870. Shevvv

  • Forlifive 10 months ago

    I'm beginning to think npp is now dreaming and trying to make capital out of no issue

  • Okatakyie 10 months ago

    Should the President "hand over" to his vice when he is officially on vacation in say Bole Bamboi?

    Is the word "unavailable" synonymous with "outside the country" when in this day and age, he can conduct all his activities ...
    read full comment

  • Kwame Tawiah 10 months ago

    GO TO COURT IF YOU THINK THEY HAVE BREACH THE CONSTITUTION.

  • John 10 months ago

    Daddy please use your sence Ghana now is older than this useless talks.

  • Bongo 10 months ago

    Mahama don't understand politics, he's a good leader. Mahama is not good enough.

  • Nana 10 months ago

    @Bongo. What are you trying to communicate

  • Jahga 10 months ago

    Even if it’s a same day trip?

  • Citizen 10 months ago

    And so what. You saw Oliver as a threat to our democracy and wanted to charge his for felony but you failed to see worse things happening to the state. Selective amnesia

  • Akwasi Addai 10 months ago

    Bush lawyer. As he is the only lawyer or the only person who knows the law.

  • TrueTrue 10 months ago

    GHANA NEEDS A MILITARY COUP....TO LOCK UP ALL CROOKED POLITICIAN & OTHER CRIMINAL BASTARDS, STOP GALAMSEY & RESTORE OUR FORESTS. WE NEED THE COUP LEADER TO BE LIKE TRAORE OF BURKINA FASO & KAGAME OF RWANDA.

  • Zargon 10 months ago

    So if the NDC coughs these idiots will come and say something? Smh

  • Elder 10 months ago

    That coup leader is already democratically elected and that is Mahama, with 2/3rds of parliament. The minority is even afraid of his shadow and so the pre-empt and go for demonstrations even when he has not spoken. Change has ...
    read full comment

  • Kwabena 10 months ago

    Nowadays guys stop your fooling on this platform at least your enjoy free SHS to have a head to think. Or you are being ushered to talk rubbish with the social media funds from the flagstar house by your attach dog master kwa ...
    read full comment

  • Zom 10 months ago

    Beneficiary of free SHS be this …better without free SHS .

    Colossal loss ,dazed npp

  • Sikano Ahye 10 months ago

    Nkrabea keep cool, Mahama is a highly refined constitutional and experience politician. No breaches. All falls in line. Bagbin had never acted as president throughout Akufo-Addo's era.

  • Ewvevi 10 months ago

    Big maaf weed smoker effah darteh, has bagbin told you that the presidio didn't inform him? Get lost with your ugly face.

  • HYPOCRITES AND PARASITES 10 months ago

    What warranted the Speaker of Parliament to Act in the past. Was it not the absence of the President and the Vice? Even the Constitution contemplated this.
    Why these NPP guys all talking balderdash. Always unconstitutional. ...
    read full comment

  • Kay, Ohio, USA 10 months ago

    This guy is a big Fool. Is the speaker not in Ghana. What is he talking about

  • SURVIVAL. 10 months ago

    This happened in Akuffo Addo's first term.Bawumia was on sick leave and Akuffo Addo travelled outside so Prof.Quaye took over affairs.

  • Charles oppong 10 months ago

    You have now find your voice now that John Mahama is in power,criminals lawyer who always defend arm robbers and drug dealers.Shout up!

  • FOYOOSIS 10 months ago

    At the moment, Ghana has no Chief Justice because she's on suspension pending a case against her removal, so who do you expect to swore the speaker in to act as substantive in absence of the president and his vice?

    The c ...
    read full comment

  • Tweaa Bawulier 10 months ago

    Effah Dartey, don't be stupid, did anybody swear in Mike Oquaye before acting as president when both the gyantra man Akuffo Serwaa Broni Addo and the walewale dancing goat, were absent from Ghana?

    Mfuisɛm kwa. Nnam ba!

  • Oklemekuku 10 months ago

    Kokoase lawyer, Effaf-Darteh. The Speaker is te 3rd in command. By the way, did he say the same thing when Akuffo Addo and Bawumia were outside the country at a point in time?

  • This is 2025 grandpa 10 months ago

    In the world of technology this law is useless. It made sense the time it was passed but now obsolete.

  • HDondon 10 months ago

    What of the one bathing bathing in airplane some time back

  • Joy 10 months ago

    Nana addo and bawumia did the same. Mr darteh I don't support you only if our vice president is sick and mahama has got the Time to visit her.

  • dog meat 10 months ago

    he is right take note of that and hand over in a proper way to the speaker

  • Koji Mensah 10 months ago

    So the president cannot sign any agreements abroad? Lawyers have such low IQ. No wonder any sociology graduate can become a lawyer. Pathetic!

  • Odjame 10 months ago

    He is right on this

  • Anna 10 months ago

    There should be an anticipated length of absence before the speaker is sworn in Would you expect the speaker to take over when pres.and vice are out to Togo for one hour fir a conference?.

  • No wonder 10 months ago

    It is not surprising that your constituents saw how foolish you are, the reason they kicked you out of parliament. There were occasions Nana Addo and Bawumiliar were out of the country, and the constitution provides who will ...
    read full comment

  • Agya Yaw 10 months ago

    My search reveals this. Or is not true?

    Speaker of Parliament sworn - in as Acting President
    “The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, was today (Sunday) sworn in as the acting President of Ghana an emerg ...
    read full comment

  • Yaw 10 months ago

    Effah you are wrong. Both can travel and the Speaker acts.

  • Akora Tano 10 months ago

    The true colors of this empty so called Lairs/lawyers is playing out so fast after their disgraceful defeat in the election..
    Shameless thieves who call themselves lawyers!

  • Dzata.cement.GH@consultant.com 10 months ago

    U are the first useless lawyer firm I experience , did the vice president get out from Ghana for enjoying herself or she was sick and admitted, is the president just travel while he knew the vice is admitted ?
    U are usel de ...
    read full comment

  • Dread 10 months ago

    If you don't have any sensible thing to say, just shut up.

  • Daakyehene 10 months ago

    Another useless man, where were you when Akufo Addo visited Bawumia in UK when the later was admitted and receiving treatment?

  • Kwesi Botchwey 10 months ago

    Mahama will not do it daaa because he feels the speaker will boost himself since he knows him very well

  • Bro 10 months ago

    The people who cried digitalization have forgotten that with current day technology we live in a global village. You can be anywhere and exercise control. Asemsebe

  • James 10 months ago

    Dada Capt Nkrabea! GHANAIANS have heard you. Next?

  • Abrefa 10 months ago

    This is our problem in Africa. We don't respect the laws governing us as a nation. Effah Darteh is absolutely right.

  • Dickson 10 months ago

    It's not a breach. The constitution is clear that in the absence of both the Speaker of Parliament will act
    I suppose the minority would have taken on the government

  • Asakramitoga 10 months ago

    Just ignore this foolish Ajax Bukana lawyer

  • Cat 10 months ago

    Go to court

  • Ujah 10 months ago

    I think my learned man, Effah read only one law in all his entire law school yrs. See when did that stupid thing call mother 's day became an African celebration? This type of stupid half white half black is problem of Africa ...
    read full comment

  • Agbeli Kumordzi 10 months ago

    Is not a human beings wrote the constitution of Ghana
    Fellow human being in Medicare can not ne visited by the president
    Fellow Ghanaians use common sense

  • Accra is dirty.com 10 months ago

    Kofi Nkrabea Effa Darteh su nenkrabea denam,ama nkrabea redi nadendane

  • Ssm 10 months ago

    Look at this fool wanting free publicity.

  • Vivian 10 months ago

    It was an opportunity for your useless party to stage a coup as it is always known about you. Why didn't you? You think he's power drunk like your akyem mafia and party cohorts that he will leave his humanity side to please y ...
    read full comment

  • kwesi 10 months ago

    Stop throwing dust. In the absence of the two the speaker is the 3rd. in command. how can u then say it's unconstitutional. Stop throwing dust into people eyes

  • DADANOARA MAHAMA STILL INCOMPETENT? 10 months ago

    Is it incompetence or just a deliberate disregard for our constitution? He was stealing himself to go to London and back? President paa na wo y3 saa?

  • The best Dollar ATM in town 10 months ago

    Who was in charge during your abortive coup?

  • Pat 10 months ago

    Where is the speaker?

  • BBB 10 months ago

    All these useless and needless arguments doesn't solve the very problems you politicians have created and we are suffering it.

  • Hannan 10 months ago

    ! Single women are waiting for you on -> Fun4.top

  • Tryme 10 months ago

    Lol. Concert NPP entities

  • Bitter truth 10 months ago

    But on a more serious note, when is the vice president of Ghana coming back to start her duties..if the woman is old and cannot function as a vice president, why don’t Mahama allow the woman to retire in peace and appoint ...
    read full comment

  • Kwesi 10 months ago

    There is NO breach of article 60 (11) of the constitution when both the president and the vice are out of the country. The main thing is president Mahama is still in control of the country's affairs, as he's MENTALLY & PHYSIC ...
    read full comment

  • Chilo 10 months ago

    Mahama had travelled secrets with the woman. 3y3 ka. Wr) ne dross paa nie

  • Kayeh 10 months ago

    Where did both of them go, thereby creating this vacuum?

  • Jagadu 10 months ago

    Shut the up, idiot!

  • Landlord OA 10 months ago

    Effah Darteh the drunkard who was dismissed from the Ghana Army should not be taken serious

  • Kodjo 10 months ago

    Listen to this man too

  • Bu wo paah 10 months ago

    Eiii this Mahama travelling secretly with the woman on Morhers day. Aaaaaba, akye mu.

  • KWASI KYEI 10 months ago

    Lawyer, you have forgotten that this matter was tested in the Supreme Court during the former speaker, Hon. DOE Adjaho's reign.The verdict was that, as far as he was sworn in after his election in the Parliament by the parlia ...
    read full comment

  • Kwesi 10 months ago

    Question: Is the president able to perform his duties whilst he's outside Ghana.
    Answer: YES
    Question: Has the president breached the constitution.
    Answer: No