Monday, 23 January 2017

NPP suffering from policy credibility- Haruna Iddrisu



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Minority weighs court action over
Independent Prosecutor’s Office
Source: Ghana | Myjoyonline.com | GN
Date: 23rd-january-2017 Time: 6:58:31 am
The Minority in Parliament may head to the
Supreme Court to challenge plans by Nana
Akufo-Addo to set up the Independent
Prosecutor’s Office.
Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, told Accra-
based Citi FM that his side is convinced
without a doubt that proposed corruption
fighting portfolio breaches the Constitution.

The proposed Independent Prosecutor‘s
Office, according to the President, will be
one of the ways that his administration will
deal specifically with corruption in the public
sector.
However, Mr Iddrisu says that an office that
is not stipulated by the Constitution will
conflict with the provisions of Article 88 of
the Constitution which vests the functions of
the proposed Independent Prosecutor’s
Office in the Attorney-General.
The functions, he said “belongs to the
executive chapter of the constitution which is
entrenched, therefore you cannot be seeking
to review that through an Act of Parliament”
“I am certain that Article 88 is entrenched,
and not that which can be reviewed simply
through a process of an Act of Parliament,”
he said.
Article 88 of the Constitution states the
following:
 (1) There shall be an Attorney-General of
Ghana who shall be a Minister of State and
the principal legal adviser to the
Government;
(2) The Attorney-General shall discharge
such other duties of a legal nature as may
be referred or assigned to him by the
President, or imposed on him by this
Constitution or any other law;
(3) The Attorney-General shall be responsible
for the initiation and conduct of all
prosecutions of criminal offences;
(4) All offences prosecuted in the name of
the Republic of Ghana shall be at the suit of
the Attorney-General or any other person
authorised by him in accordance with the
law;
 (5) The Attorney-General shall be
responsible for the institution and conduct
of all civil cases on behalf of the State, and
all civil proceedings against the State shall
be instituted against the Attorney-General as
defendant;
 (6) The Attorney-General shall have
audience in all courts in Ghana.
Haruna Iddrisu did not give a timeline for
the likely legal action.

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