Former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini, says that he disagrees with the recent Supreme Court judgment that nullified the Speaker’s decision on the vacant seat’s saga.
According to the former MP, he feels uncomfortable with the Supreme Court decision particularly that of the judgment of Justice Asare Darko, who failed to do any evaluation of Article 97 of Ghana`s constitution which is clear on the conditions under which a seat can be declared vacant.
In a phone interview on Angel TV’s “Yen Man Ghana” on Saturday, November 16, 2024, hosted by Dr. Kwame Asah-Asante, he stated that the Supreme Court ruling was based on Article 97, one(g) and (h), which only affects this current parliament but not the next parliament.
To him, people disagreed with the court ruling, but the law has spoken; however, the Supreme Court is the highest of the land; they must obey and respect their judgment.
He further expressed that Asare Darko was only using the keywords in Article 97 (g) and (h) to rule his judgment, which is also part of 97(1); however, a detailed analysis of 97(1), particularly 1(a), through (h), which gives the implications, shows a trend of future intention to contest elections that will affect present consideration of parliament.
“Asare Darko is more interested in the particular composition in the parliament and the disturbances that will occur in the seats that are declared vacant; that is he talks about stability, he should have done more analysis and thrown more light before conclusions,” he emphasized.
He, however, emphasized that in 2020, Parliament had a similar issue that did not destabilize the parliament.
“The present composition of parliament has brought the issue and has led to the infatuation of principle; that is where I have my challenge with him” he stated.
