{"id":233028,"date":"2016-07-21T11:24:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233028"},"modified":"2016-07-21T11:24:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T11:24:15","slug":"karpowership-suit-against-ag-adjourned-to-july-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233028","title":{"rendered":"Karpowership suit against AG adjourned to July 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has adjourned to July 28 its ruling on a suit filed against the Attorney General over the\u00a0Karpowership agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for Juaben South, Mark Assibey Yeboah, <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/06\/19\/mp-sues-ag-over-karpowership-deal\/\">filed the petition<\/a><\/strong><\/span> praying the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of AG\u2019s position that the deal with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) did not need\u00a0parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;lrEwAViZJJi1mS1nHi5PxZocraVjvEM4&#8243;]Per <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/04\/29\/karpower-first-power-barge-to-be-delivered-in-september-2015\/#sthash.awHXfFyL.dpbs\">the agreement<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Karpowership was to build an emergency power barge for the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) to ease the power challenges in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The suit first came to light when the MP for Effutu, Alex Afenyo Markin, who filed the suit on behalf of, Mr. Assibey, announced the matter on the Floor of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The Minority in Parliament insisted that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/09\/minority-reactivates-plans-to-sue-govt-over-ecg-karpowership-deal\/#sthash.4YIcjxzo.dpbs\">government seeks parliamentary approval<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0before proceeding with the deal but government argued otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has adjourned to July 28 its ruling on a suit filed against the Attorney General over the\u00a0Karpowership agreement. The Member of Parliament for Juaben South, Mark Assibey Yeboah, filed the petition praying the Supreme Court to determine the constitutionality of AG\u2019s position that the deal with the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":233030,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233028","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/233030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}