Haruna Iddrisu opens fire on Akufo-Addo’s Secretary over Anti-LGBTQI Bill
The lawmakers indicated that Parliament has just passed a Bill which has not yet become a law until it has been assented to by the President, therefore there is nothing like a law which is being contested at the Supreme Court.
Member of Parliament for the Tamale South constituency, Haruna Iddrisu, has fired Nana Asante Bediatio – Secretary to President Nana Akufo-Addo for attempting to block Parliament from carrying out its legislative duties as enshrined in the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana.
The tough-talking Legislator descended heavily on the presidency, describing the actions of Nana Asante Bediatuo as unacceptable and frivolous, for him to have issued a letter to Parliament without recourse to the fact that Parliament is an independent institution mandated by law to perform legislative duties, among others.
According to Haruna Iddrisu, the letter from the Presidency signed by Nana Asante Bediatuo is of no value and must be ignored or thrown out as quickly as possible because “it does not bear the signature of the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo”, as done when it comes to formal communication from the Presidency to Parliament.
He explained that the letter which seeks to restrict the clerk to Parliament from sending the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill to President Akufo-Addo for assent, was signed by the secretary to the President – Nana Asante Bediatuo and not the President himself, hence it deserves no attention.
Haruna Iddrisu further said that any letter from the Presidency seeking Parliament to do something must be signed appropriately by the President himself and addressed to the Speaker of Parliament but not the clerk.
The lawmakers indicated that Parliament has just passed a Bill which has not yet become a law until it has been assented to by the President, therefore there is nothing like a law which is being contested at the Supreme Court.
He therefore said, the intention of President Akufo-Addo which the said letter is trying to portray as the basis for not assenting to the Bill has no legal basis and, therefore, is unconstitutional for anybody to block Parliament from performing its functions.
By Edzorna Francis Mensah
