A member of the 1992 Constitution draft and Member of the Constitutional, Legal and Parliamentary Affair, Cletus Apul Avoka has said that the censure motion in the constitution is useless.
Speaking to Our Parliamentary Emmanuel Kwaku Ansah, on the 4th Republic, The Former Majority Leader and longest Member of the 4th Republic, Cletus Avoka says the fact that the constitution gives Parliament the power to censure a minister of undesired conduct not automatically doesn’t support the rationale.
Article 82 of the 1992 Constitution allows the legislators to censure a minister and Parliament can constitute a Committee in the bid to let the minister off his position.
To him, the fact that the said provision must necessarily allow the discretion of the President of the day makes the checks and balances a useless venture.
Cletus Avoka also disagrees with the proposal to increase the four-year-two-term presidential period to six years as untenable since Ghanaians cannot wait. To him, four years is enough but we waste time.
Source: Oyerepafmonline.com
