{"id":244879,"date":"2016-09-01T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=244879"},"modified":"2016-09-01T12:22:41","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:22:41","slug":"speaker-throws-out-motion-to-investigate-mahamas-ford-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/09\/speaker-throws-out-motion-to-investigate-mahamas-ford-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker throws out motion to investigate Mahama’s Ford gift"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Speaker of Ghana\u2019s Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho has dismissed the motion filed by the Minority calling for investigations into President John Mahama\u2019s Ford gift saga.<\/p>\n
Mr. Doe Adjaho directed the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) members of the house to pursue the case at the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, (CHRAJ).<\/p>\n
According to the Speaker, various legal and constitutional provisions indicate that the body mandated to deal with such issues is the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice, (CHRAJ).<\/p>\n
He also listed a number of such cases against public officials which he said were investigated by CHRAJ hence Parliament has no business in looking into President Mahama’s Ford saga.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”jSYtXHbinQFE439Xgmukauclaj5b1PH5″]\u201cOrdinarily, having regard to standing order 79(4), I would have returned the motion to the member in whose name it stands as being inadmissible. But the motion was tied contemporaneously to the request for the recall of the house under standing order 38(1) which derives from article 123 of the constitution and therefore leaves me with no discretion in recalling the house. Standing order 79(4) also provides as follows: Every notice shall be submitted to Mr. Speaker who shall direct that it be printed in its original terms or with such amendments as he shall direct or that it be returned to the member submitting it as being inadmissible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am therefore unable to admit this motion. I hereby direct the clerk to return the motion to the member in whose name it stands in line with standing order 79 (4).\u201d<\/p>\n