Former Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini, has stirred fresh debate around the limits of parliamentary immunity following a controversial visit by the National Investigations Bureau (NIB) to the home of Assin South MP, Rev.
John Ntim Fordjour.
Fuseini, who appeared on Channel One TV's The Big Issues, explained that the legal protections afforded to Members of Parliament are not as watertight as many assume.
According to him, parliamentary immunity in Ghana is more of a convention than a hard-coded legal principle. "The immunities of members of parliament are not absolute.
