A former Director of the Ghana School of Law, Kwaku Ansa-Asare, has commended the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, for his address to the press Wednesday, November 06, 2024.
The Speaker, who has reconvened Parliament to meet today, Thursday, November 07, met with the press yesterday to address certain concerns that have lingered over the controversy in the House for some weeks now.
During his address, the Speaker noted that the Executive and the Judiciary were colluding to weaken Parliament, saying their intentions to team against Parliament would both undermine the authority of the House and Ghana’s democracy as a whole.
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Reacting to the Speaker’s comments, he noted that Ghana is retrogressing because of “sycophancy and blind loyalty.”
Lawyer Ansa-Asare, speaking with Captain Smart on Onua TV’s morning show, Maakye, Thursday, November 07, 2024, indicated that when people are in government, they refuse to see anything wrong due to their personal benefit.
He lauded the Speaker’s courage in telling the Supreme Court in the face that they have overstepped its bounds.
“What is harming us as a country is sycophancy and blind loyalty. We are not progressing because of these two things. We refuse to see things when they are going wrong,” he stated in Twi.
Mr. Ansa-Asare added that “what Bagbin said yesterday should have been the position of many people in leadership before Bagbin even come in. Aren’t we all aware that courts have no business to interfere in the affairs of Parliament? But when you say it, they call you names.”
He maintained that the Supreme Court has no business in the affairs of Parliament since both arms are independent on their own.
Mr. Ansa-Asare said he was surprised to hear some senior members at the bar lauding the apex court’s actions for interfering in parliamentary processes.
“That’s why I’ve always been saying that the Supreme Court had no business in the affairs of Parliament yet some senior lawyers said what the Supreme Court did was apt. This brings confusion to the judges.”
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