{"id":278474,"date":"2016-12-21T12:31:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=278474"},"modified":"2016-12-21T12:31:01","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T12:31:01","slug":"mahama-can-make-last-minute-appointments-but-kofi-abotsi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/mahama-can-make-last-minute-appointments-but-kofi-abotsi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama can make &#8216;last minute&#8217; appointments but&#8230; &#8211; Kofi Abotsi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama is currently well within his right to make appointments before the handover of power on January 7, 2017, the Dean of the faculty of law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Kofi Abotsi has stated.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, the President can do anything he is mandated to do as he is still the Head of State, Mr. Abotsi said on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show,\u00a0<\/strong>but he questioned if such appointments were on the right side of the moral spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;NRJOUpuDjMON2Rz5ZMYmvAdW63O6lZEb&#8221;]This follows President Mahama&#8217;s\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/20\/mahama-swears-in-joseph-whittal-as-new-chraj-boss\/\">swearing-in<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of the new heads for the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE).<\/p>\n<p>The incoming New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has said these appointments were in bad faith and has indicated it may review these and other appointments when it assumes the mantle of governance.<\/p>\n<p>President Mahama was also subsequently\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/20\/mahama-sued-over-chraj-appointment\/\">sued<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0by Lawyer Philip Addison who believes the President erred in these appointments and is thus seeking to restrain him from using his last days in office to make such decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, Mr. Abotsi is of the view that \u201ctill the Supreme Court speaks, the President has the power to act until the midnight of the 6<sup>th<\/sup> of January.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So in the circumstance of where we stand at the moment, the government has acted properly. Legally speaking, on the face of the text of the constitution, the President is right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Principled decision-making must prevail<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the President retaining the right to make such appointments by law, Mr. Abotsi indicated that the Constitution that gave him this right is ostensibly limited hence the concept of the spirit of the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot all things must be informed must law. The constitution as you see it is a very limited document and that is why the framers of the constitution\u2026 inserted the concept of the spirit. The spirit is to inform the letter,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p>On the possible outcomes of the lawsuit, Mr. Abotsi said he suspected the Supreme Court was \u201cprobably going to take a very dynamic view as far as the law is concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In line with the spirit of the law, Mr. Abotsi implored that principled decision-making prevail so as to avoid saddling\u00a0the incoming government with far-reaching consequences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You do not want you successor to be bogged down by decisions you have taken that have effects beyond your term. Principled decision-making actually dictates that around this time, you do not take new decisions that will have the effect of binding the government especial when they are not practically necessary,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama is currently well within his right to make appointments before the handover of power on January 7, 2017, the Dean of the faculty of law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Kofi Abotsi has stated. 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