{"id":461128,"date":"2018-02-03T15:21:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T15:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/criticisms-of-ministers-suspension-much-ado-about-nothing-obiri-boahen\/"},"modified":"2018-02-03T15:21:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-03T15:21:29","slug":"criticisms-of-ministers-suspension-much-ado-about-nothing-obiri-boahen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/03\/criticisms-of-ministers-suspension-much-ado-about-nothing-obiri-boahen\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticisms of minister\u2019s suspension &#8216;much ado about nothing&#8217; \u2013 Obiri-Boahen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday,  3 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-03<\/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\/22887858.295.jpg\" alt=\"Obiri 1\" title=\"Obiri 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"205\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Nana Obiri-Boahen, Deputy General Secretary of the NPP<\/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\/2018\/02\/1517671289_450_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Deputy General Secretary of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Obiri-Boahen has described as perplexing the National Democratic Congress\u2019 (NDC) criticism of the suspension of the Upper West Regional Minister Sulemana Alhassan by President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Alhassan was suspended Thursday, February 1 after reports that he shielded some suspected NPP thugs who invaded the regional office of the National Disaster Management Organization (NAMDO) and attacked some staff of the office.<\/p>\n<p>He would remain on suspension \u201cpending the outcome of the investigation into the unfortunate incidents that occurred at the premises of the Upper West Regional office of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), in Wa, on Wednesday, 31st January, 2018,\u201d a statement by the Director of Communications at the Presidency Eugene Arhin stated.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the opposition NDC including the Member of Parliament for Bawku Central Mahama Ayariga described the suspension as unconstitutional. He argued in a telephone interview with Host of Morning Starr Francis Abban Friday, February 2, that Ghana\u2019s constitution does not provide room for the suspension of a minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s illegal, it is unconstitutional. It is not an action contemplated under our constitution,\u201d said Mr. Ayariga who was also a former Sports Minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no provision in the constitution that empowers the president to suspend a minister. The president cannot suspend a minister; it should have been a dismissal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Also, a former deputy minister Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed described the directive as \u201ca complete joke.\u201d \u201cSince when did it dawn on the president to start taking such actions?\u201d he wondered, arguing that the directive was a \u201ccomplete violation of the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his reaction, however, Mr. Obiri-Boahen told Starr Today\u2019s Naa Dedei Tetteh that the claims by the NDC and its members are hollow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly speaking I think what Mahama Ayariga is saying is much ado about nothing,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the action of the President is strongly supported by the constitution says: \u201cI\u2019m saying it and I maintain unreservedly that whatever the president did, he did so in his capacity as the president and he is strongly covered by the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy good friend Mahama Ayariga was talking about there is no provision in the constitution which talks about suspension. Also there is no provision in the constitution which says if Minister \u2018A\u2019 at Energy Ministry goes on leave it is Mr. B or C of his Ministry to take over. We don\u2019t have that clear-cut provision in the constitution. But, by operation of the constitution\u2026.by convention and tradition, it is so clear. 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