{"id":466144,"date":"2018-02-21T03:41:05","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T03:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/21\/speakers-utterances-insulting-dominic-ayine\/"},"modified":"2018-02-21T03:41:05","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T03:41:05","slug":"speakers-utterances-insulting-dominic-ayine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/21\/speakers-utterances-insulting-dominic-ayine\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker\u2019s utterances insulting \u2013 Dominic Ayine"},"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, 21 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-21<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/84382369.295.jpg\" alt=\"Dominic Ayine  DEPUTY AG\" title=\"Dominic Ayine  DEPUTY AG\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Dr. Dominic Ayine, former Deputy Attorney General and Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga East<\/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\/1519184465_293_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> A former Deputy Attorney General and Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga East, Dr. Dominic Ayine, has said the dismissal of him as \u201cunprepared\u201d by the Speaker of Parliament when he took to his feet to address the House was \u201cinsulting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ayine who sued the State and Martin Amidu over his suitability for the Special Prosecutor job was rebuked by the Speaker Mike Oquaye Tuesday, February 20, during the proceedings to adopt the recommendation of the Appointment Committee to approve the nomination of Mr. Amidu when he stood up to address the chamber for not getting his briefs right before his attempted address of House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important to realise that when you want to put a piece and know the procedure for jaw-jawing by way of producing your authority at the appropriate time, then please prepare at dawn before you come to court or before you come to parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that you can really produce your authority in the manner that will be required by the Supreme Court. And this is a duty that any serious lawyer will tell you should be done,\u201d admonished the Speaker.<\/p>\n<p>In his reaction, however, on Starr Today Dr. Ayine observed that he found the Speaker\u2019s intervention unfair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was an insult,\u201d he told Starr Today\u2019s co-host Naa Dedei Tetteh \u201cand I took exception to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Speaker\u2019s assertion that he wasn\u2019t adequately prepared was inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI prepared on this matter,\u201d he added asking: \u201cAnd if your reporters were there did I speak like somebody who wasn\u2019t knowledgeable on the subject matter?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be serious as a people,\u201d he said and that when he was making substantive argument relating to order 93 (1) of the Parliament\u2019s standing orders, making arguments in relation to the separation of powers architecture of \u201cour constitution\u201d were they arguments that could be faulted as coming from someone who wasn\u2019t prepared.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cBoth the Speaker and the Majority leader have a way of trying to denigrate and hold in contempt arguments being made by the Minority. Every time they are telling you that you are incompetent, your motion is incompetent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>SC will uphold Amidu\u2019s appointment<\/p>\n<p>The Attorney General and Minister of Justice Gloria Akufo has said the Supreme Court (SC) will uphold President Akufo-Addo\u2019s appointment of Martin Amidu as Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>The Plenary of Parliament Tuesday February 20 accepted the nomination of Martin Amidu after the Appointments Committee approved him by consensus after the Tamale North MP Alhassan Suhyini voted for the nomination after dissenting initially.<\/p>\n<p>There are fears that the suit by Former deputy Attorney General Dr. Dominic Ayine challenging the eligibility of Martin Amidu as Special Prosecutor due to his age could scuttle his appointment.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists however after Parliament approved the nomination of Mr. Amidu, paving way for the President to swear him in, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice said: \u201cI am confident that Martin Amidu\u2019s appointment will be confirmed by the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When reminded by one of the journalists that Dr. Ayine\u2019s Supreme Court suit creates a certain cloud of uncertainty around the appointment, the Attorney General snorted: \u201cThere is no cloud as far as I am concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomebody thinks that age is a bar to it [appointment]. I think not,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>Dr. Ayine heckled<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ayine who has sued the state and Amidu over his age suitability for the Special Prosecutor job was hooted at by some MPs as he stood on his feet to address the chamber.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Speaker I am inviting your good self to make a determination humbly on this matter, in respect of this matter which is before the Supreme Court on the qualification or eligibility of the nominee,\u201d Ayine noted, citing his basis from order 93 of the standing orders of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>However reacting to the intervention, the Majority leader Osei Kyei Mensah Bonsu, argued that precedence before the house suggested the nominee could be approved by the House despite the pending case at the court.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Amidu will now have to be sworn by President Akufo-Addo to become the Special Prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AmWvDGUc6Do\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>The Special Prosecutor<\/p>\n<p>The Special Prosecutor is a specialized agency to investigate specific cases of corruption involving public officers, politically-exposed persons as well as individuals in the private sector implicated in corrupt practices and to prosecute the offences on the authority of the Attorney-General.<\/p>\n<p>The Office is also expected to help reduce the workload on existing investigative agencies and, thereby, enhance their effectiveness. 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