{"id":159593,"date":"2015-10-14T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-14T10:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=159593"},"modified":"2015-10-14T14:25:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T14:25:32","slug":"case-against-constitutional-review-committee-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=159593","title":{"rendered":"Case against Constitution Review Commission dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a case brought before it, which sought to challenge the legality of the Constitution Review Commission.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_159611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159611\" style=\"width: 473px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/professor-Stephen-Kwaku-Asare.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159611\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/professor-Stephen-Kwaku-Asare.jpg\" alt=\"Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare\" width=\"473\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/professor-Stephen-Kwaku-Asare.jpg 473w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/professor-Stephen-Kwaku-Asare-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-159611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;lHB1qEB2iPdsLqA9G7IXi1jgTWOUZJj8&#8243;]A US-based Ghanaian professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare, filed a suit at the Supreme Court, seeking eight reliefs including to nullify the constitution review process currently underway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He had argued primarily that the executive acted unlawfully by setting up the Commission to review the constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The professor insisted that the commission has no power to schedule a referendum or to amend the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the Supreme Court, chaired by the Chief Justice, Georgina Wood said the case has no merit and has subsequently scheduled October 29, to publish the reasons for the ruling.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. Allotey &amp; Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed a case brought before it, which sought to challenge the legality of the Constitution Review Commission. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;lHB1qEB2iPdsLqA9G7IXi1jgTWOUZJj8&#8243;]A US-based Ghanaian professor, Stephen Kwaku Asare, filed a suit at the Supreme Court, seeking eight reliefs including to nullify the constitution review process currently underway. He had argued primarily that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":150709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-159593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=159593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}