Judiciary has no business intervening in bills – Bagbin Clarifies
Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Bagbin has expressed worry over the persistent writs received on bills.
According to him, the worrying trend is not constitutional and gradually weakening the work of legislators.
Alban Bagbin who was addressing Parliamentarians indicated that until all the processes in Parliament are exhausted there is no business for anybody including the court to consider.
“Please let it be known that when it comes to law-making until all the processes in this house are exhausted, there is no business for anybody including the courts to consider because the constitution and the enabling legislation take care of all these challenges until if it’s a law assented to by the president, Judiciary has no jurisdiction to try to intervene.
This is notice and we have to take this seriously or else our Legislative Authority is being taken from us by other agencies and arms of government. That should be resisted by this house or else your being here is of no consequence.
The law is very clear on this. So until a bill is assented to by the President, nobody has any business to take that process that is being considered by the house to the court. I don’t want to preempt the ruling of the supreme court in this matter but I’m giving notice that on a daily basis I’m being served with writs as a party on matters that are being considered by the house that is why I’m compelled to say this,” he said.
Ghana’s Parliament has been at the centre of discussions recently after the anti-Lgbtqi+bill could not be assented to by the President because of suits filed by some Ghanaians.
The President through his Executive Secretary asked Parliament not to transmit the bill to his office as it’s a subject of a suit.
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