{"id":395419,"date":"2018-01-26T13:15:22","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T13:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=395419"},"modified":"2018-01-26T20:19:07","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T20:19:07","slug":"apaak-criticizes-another-swearing-in-of-speaker-as-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/apaak-criticizes-another-swearing-in-of-speaker-as-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Apaak criticizes another swearing-in of Speaker as President"},"content":{"rendered":"
National Democratic Congress [NDC] Member of Parliament for Builsa South, Dr. Clement Apaak, is upset with what he calls the impromptu summoning of Parliament for the second swearing-in of the Speaker of Parliament,\u00a0Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, to act as President in less than a week.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Citi News<\/strong> after the announcement in Parliament on Friday, Dr. Apaak said the processes prescribed by law were inconveniencing several MPs.<\/p>\n [contextly_sidebar id=”dVbsIaPiYyxxm4CxWPcimtKrCUnNLLre”]\u201cAs I speak to you, myself and many of my colleagues have engagements and activities in our constituencies and we are to leave, and yet we are expected to come back to the House at 8:30 am to swear in the Speaker as President. I don\u2019t think it is sustainable.\u201d<\/p>\n The MP said the government needs to provide some clarity on the matter to legislators.<\/p>\n \u201c… So it is entirely the responsibility of the government of the day to come clean so that we can understand the conditions that would warrant us to make the kinds of sacrifices that we are expected to make. As it is now, we don\u2019t understand the full story and a lot of us don\u2019t feel that it is justified to always come in at the nick of time, as they did today, for us to come in tomorrow and swear in the Speaker as the acting President,\u201d Dr. Apaak added.<\/p>\n Nana Addo heading for\u00a0AU Summit<\/strong><\/p>\n The swearing-in on Saturday, which is mandated by Article 60 (11) and (12) of the 1992 Constitution, has been necessitated by President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s expected trip to Addis Ababa\u00a0for the AU Summit.<\/p>\n