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General News of Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-02-19
Mahama Ayariga, MP Bawku Central
The Supreme Court quashed a case brought before it by Bawku Central MP Mahama Ayariga, who was to define the terms of some social intervention programs launched by the Nana Akufo-Addo government.
The Supreme Court presided over by Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo said that she had engaged in the action, fault or not prosecuted.
Ayariga sued the Akufo-Addo government in March 2018 for the implementation of the Poverty Eradication Program (IPEP), the free high school, Planting for Food and Jobs, as well as the activities of the government. Existing agencies such as the Microfinance Center and Small Loans (MASLOC) and others.
Mr. Ayariga had argued that the government had not submitted operational modalities to the policy framework of some of these programs in Parliament.
He had asked the court to compel the president or sector ministers concerned to submit the relevant laws and regulations to Parliament.
Ayariga sought "an order of mandamus obliging the president or his appointed ministers to bring to Parliament appropriate laws establishing the institutions or agencies necessary for the implementation of such initiatives, and to submit to Parliament appropriate regulations so that he can legislate in the exercise of discretion. involved in the implementation of the said initiatives once the Law No. 2 on Credits (Law No. 2) of 2017 (Law No. 951) has been adopted by Parliament, authorizing the allocation of appropriations. "
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