Stop the adoption of the bill on public universities

General news for Friday 25 December 2020

Source: GNA

2020-12-25

The legislator was called upon to suspend the adoption of the bill on public universities.

“It seems to me that the executive and the legislature are determined to pass it, despite the vehement protests of many well-meaning Ghanaians,” Mr. Kwaku Ansah-Asare, former director of legal education and director of the Ghana School of Law, said this in a press release, copied to the Ghana News Agency.

He said parliamentarians, ministers and deputy ministers currently on the cusp of leaving government have no moral authority to make executive or legislative decisions that directly affect a representative sample of the electorate “who have shown them the red card ”.

Mr Ansah-Asare said in his opinion that MPs who lost their seats had ‘nothing to do’ to sit in legislative judgment on the very electorate who voted them, adding that the same principle applied to newly elected deputies, who had not yet started the sittings.

He said the NPP government’s refusal to listen to the views of the “silent majority” on every provision of the public universities bill has greatly contributed to “the loss of about 40 seats in Parliament by the NPP “.

Mr Ansah-Asare urged the education ministry to consider the views of the opposition and drop the bill.

“Finally, I would advise with the utmost respect to former President John Dramani Mahama to accept the results of the presidential election and concede the interest of peace in Ghana,” he said.