Why do Mahama and Amissah Arthur have to travel out of Ghana at the same time? Are their travel appointments and arrangements not coordinated at the presidency? Look at Mahama's trip to Nigeria last Thursday just to help Jona ... read full comment
Why do Mahama and Amissah Arthur have to travel out of Ghana at the same time? Are their travel appointments and arrangements not coordinated at the presidency? Look at Mahama's trip to Nigeria last Thursday just to help Jonathan Goodluck to officially open a new stadium. Was that really necessary when his Vice was already out of the country? I have never heard of Obama and Biden or for that reason any US president and his vice travel out of the US at the same time. Do we just do these things to certify the fact that we are still third world people? And this has given rise to Adjaho's display of bravado.
CORNEY 11 years ago
Please Mr Mawuli,this nonsense does not happen in America and don't say what you don't know that Obama and Biden never travelled outside the same time,you don't know for sure and Obama and Biden are not the first to have rule ... read full comment
Please Mr Mawuli,this nonsense does not happen in America and don't say what you don't know that Obama and Biden never travelled outside the same time,you don't know for sure and Obama and Biden are not the first to have ruled America and if the president and the vice travel outside the US nobody in his right mind in America will say let us swear in the Speaker,our system is just bogus and a mockery of democracy.
I wonder why you the scholars are defending this bogus and uncivilized practice.
Good night.
ADJOA WANGARA 11 years ago
I just want to analyse why the Ewe, Bokor is a damn hypocrite.:
Hypocrite Point No. 1):
According to the hypocrite Bokor:
I quote -> "the Let’s take the first instance. The refusal to be sworn in makes Adjaho come ac ... read full comment
I just want to analyse why the Ewe, Bokor is a damn hypocrite.:
Hypocrite Point No. 1):
According to the hypocrite Bokor:
I quote -> "the Let’s take the first instance. The refusal to be sworn in makes Adjaho come across as cantankerous and ill-informed about constitutional democracy.
Point No. 2):
"I don’t know what motivated him to decline the swearing in"
Point No. 3):
"but I can say with all certainty that he isn't well-cut-out for the position he occupies. Without being sworn in, how did hope to function, clearly because one has to be invested with the authority of the Presidency before functioning as such. And that investiture demands nothing but a swearing into office. Is Doe Adjaho proving himself right as a lawyer?
I hear that Adjaho has explained that he NEVER refused to take the oath and that he sat with the CJ and the Minority Leader to review his previous oath and came to the conclusion that it was not necessary to take another oath because his first oath could still be binding in the absence of the President and Veep"
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Now, if you (Bokor!) are already aware the it was the CJ and minority leader who discouraged or didn't want Adjaho to swear in the second time, because it is to them constitutionally in order. Why are you not directing you article to the CJ? calling it, "the CJ is democratically and constitutionally wrong for nor swearing in Adjaho."
Besides if Adjaho is in his right sense with a levelled mind as a lawyer, why is he not doing the right thing that is expected of him in his position or capacity as the speaker of parliament?
Bokor! I put it to you that you are only trying to display some height of hypocrisy, throw dust and display some Ewe camouflage dance, "one step forward and another step backward"
You article has everything to do with a high level of hypocrisy and attention seeking from your NDC pay masters.
The content of your crap dead news.
Mawuli 11 years ago
You got me wrong. I'm not defending the chaos in Ghana. All that I said was that the travel arrangements of the president and his vice could be coordinated in such a way that both would not be outside Ghana at the same time.I ... read full comment
You got me wrong. I'm not defending the chaos in Ghana. All that I said was that the travel arrangements of the president and his vice could be coordinated in such a way that both would not be outside Ghana at the same time.It seems there is no such coordination so we find ourselves in a situation where both are outside at the same time. And these trips are not emergency trips.
Ebenezer 11 years ago
Mawuli, if you carefully read Cornelius' criticisms on this site, you will note that he often criticizes for the sake of criticism. He comments only to criticize whatever opinion is expressed by the writer or a commentator. C ... read full comment
Mawuli, if you carefully read Cornelius' criticisms on this site, you will note that he often criticizes for the sake of criticism. He comments only to criticize whatever opinion is expressed by the writer or a commentator. Criticisms are good (often more necessary than praises) but Corney's criticisms are often groundless and not based on good evidence or proper examination of the argument.
Ghanaman 11 years ago
Mahama is the one endangering Ghana, with his greed for Ebola money, corruption, incompetence, tribalism in appointing mpepefuo to many positions that cannot handle, etc.
Mahama is the one endangering Ghana, with his greed for Ebola money, corruption, incompetence, tribalism in appointing mpepefuo to many positions that cannot handle, etc.
jojo 11 years ago
this is pettiness. Why dont we engage in productive conversations? Ministers of state are performing functions behalf of the presidency,are they taking oaths intermittently? Let us focus on the economy rather these unproducti ... read full comment
this is pettiness. Why dont we engage in productive conversations? Ministers of state are performing functions behalf of the presidency,are they taking oaths intermittently? Let us focus on the economy rather these unproductive sterile arguments.
HAZOR 11 years ago
All those critize Joe Adjaho for refusing to sworn in an oath and ursher into office as acting president of Ghana.All those know it all could not quote a bill,article,section for the constitution that indicate or require the ... read full comment
All those critize Joe Adjaho for refusing to sworn in an oath and ursher into office as acting president of Ghana.All those know it all could not quote a bill,article,section for the constitution that indicate or require the speaker of parliament to sworn an oath to ursher into office as acting president.Both the president and the Vice are not dead for the speaker to take and oath.Where in the constitution that that give the power to let the speaker take an oath before act as president.This nonsense perjudice must stop.This known it all ignorant folks should know that the rule of law in the constitution did not give Joe Adjaho the right to take an oath.Bokor Shame on you but you are 100%right on parliament and i agree with you.
Bonsu 11 years ago
I don't subscribe to those who are blaming the speaker.After all it will be in his interest to have gone through the ceremony if for nothing at all,it will make for a good family album and historical record for posterity if h ... read full comment
I don't subscribe to those who are blaming the speaker.After all it will be in his interest to have gone through the ceremony if for nothing at all,it will make for a good family album and historical record for posterity if he was sure it was the proper thing to do.
When both the speaker and the CJ were not sure as to the true position,it was in their best interest to abstain from performing the ceremony because reading through the authority under the constitution upon which the oath was to be administered one can see the ridiculousness of such an exercise.
The Asare ruling only gave a narrow interpretation of the article living the question of incapacity required under the constitution in order to meet the need for the ceremony.The question is what constitutes incapacity.
The dictionary definition is clear on it,it says a physical or mental inability to do something or to manage one's affairs.Lets ask ourselves whether at anytime recently the president and the vice had been unable to perform their duties as a result of incapacity and you will see the absurdity of the exercise.
Why do Mahama and Amissah Arthur have to travel out of Ghana at the same time? Are their travel appointments and arrangements not coordinated at the presidency? Look at Mahama's trip to Nigeria last Thursday just to help Jona ...
read full comment
Please Mr Mawuli,this nonsense does not happen in America and don't say what you don't know that Obama and Biden never travelled outside the same time,you don't know for sure and Obama and Biden are not the first to have rule ...
read full comment
I just want to analyse why the Ewe, Bokor is a damn hypocrite.:
Hypocrite Point No. 1):
According to the hypocrite Bokor:
I quote -> "the Let’s take the first instance. The refusal to be sworn in makes Adjaho come ac ...
read full comment
You got me wrong. I'm not defending the chaos in Ghana. All that I said was that the travel arrangements of the president and his vice could be coordinated in such a way that both would not be outside Ghana at the same time.I ...
read full comment
Mawuli, if you carefully read Cornelius' criticisms on this site, you will note that he often criticizes for the sake of criticism. He comments only to criticize whatever opinion is expressed by the writer or a commentator. C ...
read full comment
Mahama is the one endangering Ghana, with his greed for Ebola money, corruption, incompetence, tribalism in appointing mpepefuo to many positions that cannot handle, etc.
this is pettiness. Why dont we engage in productive conversations? Ministers of state are performing functions behalf of the presidency,are they taking oaths intermittently? Let us focus on the economy rather these unproducti ...
read full comment
All those critize Joe Adjaho for refusing to sworn in an oath and ursher into office as acting president of Ghana.All those know it all could not quote a bill,article,section for the constitution that indicate or require the ...
read full comment
I don't subscribe to those who are blaming the speaker.After all it will be in his interest to have gone through the ceremony if for nothing at all,it will make for a good family album and historical record for posterity if h ...
read full comment