The Member of Parliament for Effutu Alexander Afenyo-Markin has said that the Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin avoided the service of the suit he filed on the petition against declaring the four seats vacant.
It was his view that the Speaker conspired with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lawmakers to declare the seats vacant.
He says that the speaker did not have the right to make a constitutional interpretation.
“We have just witnessed a conspiracy between the speaker and the Minorty to bring confusion in the house, it is clear that Mr. Speaker avoided service of the writ to do the bidding of the NDC. We as the Majority Caucus immediately are boycotting parliament until this matter is determined by the Supreme Court, the speaker has no right to interpret the constitution,” he told journalists in Parliament on Thursday, October 17.
The Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin has declared four seats in Parliament vacant.
The constituencies and the lawmakers are :
1. Cynthia Morrison, the current NPP MP for Agona West constituency in the Central Region, who has filed to run as an independent candidate.
2. Kwadwo Asante, the current NPP MP for the Suhum constituency in the Eastern Region, who has also filed to run as an independent candidate.
3. Andrew Asiamah Amoako, currently an independent MP for the Fomena constituency in the Ashanti Region, who has filed to run in the upcoming election as a candidate for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The former Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu had petitioned the Speaker to declare the seats vacant by invoking Article 97 (1)(g) of the Constitution which stipulates that a lawmaker must vacate their seat if they leave the party under which they were elected or attempt to remain in Parliament as an independent candidate.
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