{"id":446352,"date":"2017-12-12T19:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T19:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/use-of-honourable-as-a-title-is-dishonourable-chief-justice-tells-mps\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T19:30:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T19:30:28","slug":"use-of-honourable-as-a-title-is-dishonourable-chief-justice-tells-mps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/12\/use-of-honourable-as-a-title-is-dishonourable-chief-justice-tells-mps\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of &#8216;Honourable&#8217; as a title is dishonourable &#8211; Chief Justice tells MPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday, 12 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2017-12-12<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/35557624.295.jpg\" alt=\"Sophia Akuffo3\" title=\"Sophia Akuffo3\" width=\"295\" height=\"193\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513107028_131_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo Tuesday chided two Members of Parliament for adding the title \u2018honourable\u2019 to their names in a writ they filed before the court.<\/p>\n<p>The two National Democratic Congress MPs \u2013 Ernest Norgbey; Ashaiman Constituency and Kwabena Mintah Akandoh; Juaboso Constituency &#8211; had gone to the court to seek a revocation of the appointment of Gender Minister Otiko Afisa Djaba.<\/p>\n<p>They wanted the court to annul her appointment over her failure to undergo the mandatory National Service, and it\u2019s in that writ that they both added \u2018honourable\u2019 as titles to their names.<\/p>\n<p>When the case was called on Tuesday, Justice Akuffo was concerned about how the names of the two MPs had been written. <\/p>\n<p>She described the act as improper, adding that MPs were not supposed to add such titles to their names.<\/p>\n<p>She said, &#8220;The people who developed the tradition don&#8217;t do this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justice Akuffo said the right thing do to was write their names first before adding &#8220;Honourable Member of Parliament and the area to it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>She said the use of honourable as a title is \u201cdishonourable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 49 updated by: 49 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Tuesday, 12 December 2017 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2017-12-12 Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo The Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo Tuesday chided two Members of Parliament for adding the title \u2018honourable\u2019 to their names in a writ they filed before the court. 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