Pass censorship vote on Bryan Acheampong to force president to fire him – Lawyer in Parliament

General News of Sunday, February 10, 2019

Source: kasapafmonline.com

2019-02-10

Martin Kpebu, a prominent private lawyer, urged Parliament to pbad a vote of no confidence in the state security minister, Bryan Acheampong, to force President Akufo Addo to dismiss him following the violence. the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogo.

Mr. Acheampong admitted to deploying masked gunmen, who would be national security agents, who did violence to innocent citizens in the by-election that killed six people with gunshots.

The minister justified the actions of the security personnel.

Speaking at the "News File" broadcast, Mr. Martin Kpebu said the minister's action had disgraced Ghana on the international scene and needed to be removed from office.

"At first, he should resign. We have had resignation cases, even in this government, you may remember that the deputy minister of agriculture, Quaitoo, has resigned. So, he should do the honorable thing, if he does not think so, Parliament has the right to make a no-confidence vote for the Speaker to dismiss the Minister of State, so he should activate that. Article 82 is there for them, I think we should do it.

"Looking at this, it's such a shame for us and he embarrbaded the nation by undertaking such an illegal show of force, so he should take the fall and then we'll see what the Inquiry Commission says about this behavior. "

The president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has set up a presidential investigative commission to investigate the violence in the by-election of Ayawaso-West-Wuogon.

The Commission is composed of: Judge Emile Short – President, Mrs Henrietta Mensah Bonsu – Member, Mr Patrick K. Acheampong – Member.

Mr. Ernest Kofi Abotsi, former Dean of GIMPA Law School and Private Lawyer, has been appointed Secretary of the Commission.

The mandate of the Commission is as follows:
(a) to conduct an exhaustive, faithful and impartial investigation into the circumstances and facts at the origin of the events and the badociated violence that occurred during the partial election of Ayawaso West Wuogon, January 31, 2019;

(b) identify any person responsible or involved in the events, violence and related injuries;

(c) investigate any matter that the Board considers to be accidental or reasonably related to the causes of the events and the resulting violence and trauma; and

d) submit its report to the President within one month, indicating the reasons for its conclusions and recommendations, including the appropriate sanctions, if any.