Legal scholar Prof.
Stephen Kwaku Asare has strongly criticised the practice of swearing in the Speaker of Parliament as Acting President whenever both the President and Vice-President travel outside Ghana, calling it a "constitutional folly." In a Facebook post titled "Grounding the Kotoka Clause", Prof.
Asare argued that the practice is rooted in a "misreading-more precisely, a misapplication-of our constitutional text by the Supreme Court in Asare v.
Attorney-General." He maintained that the 1992 Constitution provides no justification for the Speaker to assume presidential duties simply because both the President and Vice-President are out of the country. "That ritual is not law-it is theatre," he wrote.
