Anti-gay bill: Akufo-Addo not ‘Alpha and Omega under the constitution’ – Ayariga

Mahama Ayariga emphasized that the president should acknowledge that the law transcends his authority and that he is not the ultimate authority within Ghana’s constitutional framework.

“It is important for the president to note that he is not the Alpha and Omega under the constitution

There are coordinate branches of government and they also have their own powers

If we will sit there and labour and pass legislations and bring it to you and you refuse to assent to it, what makes you think that we will also sit there and do your business for you?

“I think that it is also right that we also decide that if we pass legislations and he keeps refusing to assent to them, we won’t also do his business

Separation of Powers requires that the legislature must have the capacity to stand up to the executive to check them, otherwise it is a useless system that we are running.”

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