{"id":68335,"date":"2014-11-25T09:28:56","date_gmt":"2014-11-25T09:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=68335"},"modified":"2014-11-25T11:06:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T11:06:14","slug":"citi-fm-boss-goes-to-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/11\/citi-fm-boss-goes-to-court\/","title":{"rendered":"CITI FM Boss goes to court"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Managing Director of Citi FM<\/strong>, Samuel Attah-Mensah has filed a writ at the Supreme Court, seeking to prevent the Speaker of Parliament, from acting as president in the absence of the President and his vice without being sworn in.<\/p>\n According to his lawyer, Nii Apatu, Mr. Attah-Mensah is also seeking an interpretation of the article in the constitution which requires that the Speaker take the oath of office each time he is to be sworn in as acting President.<\/p>\n He said on the Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Tuesday: “We want the court to declare that on a proper and true interpretation of Article \u00a060 (11 )and 60 (12) of the constitution that the speaker shall always, before commencing to perform the functions of the president, swear the oath subscribed to in the constitution in relation to the office of the president.”<\/p>\n