{"id":446659,"date":"2017-12-13T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T14:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/debate-on-use-of-honourable-as-title-chief-justice-right-osei-owusu\/"},"modified":"2017-12-13T14:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T14:11:02","slug":"debate-on-use-of-honourable-as-title-chief-justice-right-osei-owusu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/13\/debate-on-use-of-honourable-as-title-chief-justice-right-osei-owusu\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate on use of &#8216;honourable&#8217; as title: Chief Justice right &#8211; Osei-Owusu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 13 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-13<\/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\/24128151.295.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Osei Owusu On Twoing100\" title=\"Joe Osei Owusu On Twoing100\" width=\"295\" height=\"241\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513174262_913_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, has backed a pronouncement by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo that it is improper for Members of Parliament (MP) to use the title \u2018honourable\u2019 outside parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Akuffo on Tuesday, 12 December, 2017 rebuked two MPs for adding the title \u2018honourable\u2019 to their names in a writ filed on their behalf by their lawyer Edudzi Tameklo.<\/p>\n<p>The MPs \u2013 Ernest Norgbey and Kwabena Mintah Akandoh; representing the Ashaiman and Juaboso Constituencies, respectively, had gone to the court to seek annulment of the appointment of Gender Minister, Otiko Afisa Djaba, over her failure to undergo the mandatory one-year national service.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the CJ\u2019s reproach of the MPs in an interview with Accra-based Joy FM on Wednesday, 13 December 2017, Mr Osei-Owusu said: \u201cShe [CJ] is right in respect of Members of Parliament.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bekwai lawmaker noted that although the title \u2018honourable\u2019 can be conferred on people in other jurisdictions, \u201cWhen it comes to the parliament of Ghana, reference to \u2018honourable\u2019 is only in our Standing Orders and it is clear that it is when you are addressing your colleague Member of Parliament that you use the prefix \u2018honourable\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you say, for [example], in reference to the \u2018honourable\u2019 member of so so and so, or the honourable colleague or my honourable friend, honourable chairman of the committee, honourable vice chairman, honourable leader; those are the occasions in our Standing Orders that any reference is made to the prefix \u2018honourable\u2019, so, if you go through the literature of the history of the title or prefix \u2018honourable\u2019, dating back to many centuries, it refers to different kinds of people but the literature clearly when it comes to a Member of Parliament [in Ghana], it is used only in debate to other Members of Parliament. 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