By Bubu Klinogo
The Minority in Parliament has filed a motion to remove the Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, from office. According to the NDC MPs, Mr. Dame has refused to comply with a directive from Parliament to facilitate the admission of 499 students into the Ghana School of Law. Parliament on October 29, passed a resolution directing the General Legal Council and the Ghana School of Law to admit the 499 candidates who were denied admission to the Ghana School of Law. The House directed the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to ensure that the Resolution is carried out.
The resolution was passed unanimously following a motion moved by the Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin.
The Attorney General wrote back to Parliament saying the House does not have the powers to direct the Ghana Law Council, CLC on its admission processes by a resolution.
In a memorandum addressed to the Speaker, Minority Chief Whip Mohammed Muntaka Mubarak wants the Speaker to schedule a vote of censure on the Attorney General.
The memorandum reads in part as ” that this Honorable House passes a vote of censure on the Honorable Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, in respect of the following conduct: Refusal, without justifiable basis, to implement the resolution of this Honorable House unanimously passed on October 29, 2021, that the General Legal Council admits into the Ghana School of Law 499 Students who sat for and passed the entrance examination of the Ghana School of Law for the 2021/22 legal year in accordance with its own published ground rules, Impugning the image and integrity of this Honorable House through statements unbecoming of the holder of the office of Attorney General and Minister of Justice of this Republic”.
The vote of censure is provided for under Article 82 of the Constitution. One third of MPs are required to sign the notice for a motion for a resolution on a vote of censure.