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The President Cannot Be Sued!

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  • Akadu Mensema 11 years ago

    You rightly write "Law, which is supposed to be based on facts and logic (reason), not emotions, biases, interests and hearsay..."

  • A GERSIS 11 years ago

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    A Gersis reporting

    Fellow Ghanaians

    But Lord! This girl is dancing naked with all the roguish things in the world! You are behaving like a barnyard cock with your strutting gaits and amorous habits. You are ...
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  • Taamiawu 11 years ago

    Is this 'close-marking',a term frequently used in foofball(soccer), or what? But who can blame you since Akadu has now virtually taken full ownership of the "Department of Ethnicity" from 'you- know- who' who has receded in ...
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  • Says Who 11 years ago

    The man's claim to any legal nuance, according to him comes from reading some old manuscripts, which belong to his grandfather and the fact that his sibling worked somewhere in a goverment department. Yet, he calls legal prof ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Akadu, thanks. I am indeed full of it, and there's more where this comes from. Just brace yourself for more

    I am just sick and tired of being side-tracked and side-lined while some idiots and morons are trying to rule us, ...
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  • MR. FIGURE- OUT 11 years ago

    This self adoration of Andy K is sheer self delusion. You wrote " I am no lawyer but legal issues and matters of law do not befuddle me, having grown up reading some of the huge ledgers of court records our grandfather kept d ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Ha! ha! ha! You are just envious of my pedigree! It is my political CV and I am flaunting it in your face! I want people like you to choke on it!

    Andy-K

  • Hamid 11 years ago

    1. But, Andy, why do you have to spend so much time telling us about your personal experiences with the law even though you are not, yourself, a lawyer? Is that really necessary to the argument you're making? That we should t ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    And you too, Hamid! Don't remain anonymous, hidden behind a moniker, without a class- or roommate.:-)

    You see, so it is about selling myself too, even if some of the referents are of dubious political capital, or the poten ...
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  • Hamid 11 years ago

    Even an article written without any self-referents is still very much about yourself. There is no need to stress the fact, especially when the personal fact does not contribute to the argument itself. Maybe, some time, you ma ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Thanks, Hamid,

    As you said, it is a free world. Since I don't use monikers, I am free to mention those who know me who can vouch for the veracity of what I say, or who are part of what I am writing about and therefore hav ...
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  • KOLA ,LONDON PROPER 11 years ago

    That is Andy's style of expressing himself and dilating on issues. What is your problem?

  • A GERSIS 11 years ago

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    Fellow Ghanaians

    Andy this article is diamond bright!
    Keep it up. By the way, say hi to both Hellen and solomon for me. Tell them old Gersis says so.

    So long,

    ANTONIO GERSIS
    PLAZA O ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Efo Solo and Ellen shall recieve your geetings!

    And thanks for being on the tail of that saucy Denkyera maiden. When the time is ripe, we'd invite her to meet her people whom we are still hosting since they vamooosed fro ...
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  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 11 years ago

    SHEER AND UTTER NONSENSE.

    This is all about what you enjoy indulging in:

    Pro Ewe interest and agenda motivated article with no substance and basis in law.

  • william 11 years ago

    Poor soul, I just finished enjoying Andy's well written piece. And I did not for a moment smell ethnicity in it. Thank Goodness I am not a fanatic or sour loser!Please cool down and have another go at it.

  • Taamiawu 11 years ago

    Ability to weave into any particular piece,his wide-ranging views on other subject matters,without veering off topic. A very tricky thing to do,which a few gifted writers can pull off sucessfully.

  • MAMA 11 years ago

    JUSTICE ANNIN YEBOAH A RELATIVE OF KUFFUOR OF THE SUPREME COURT SHOULD ALSO RECUSE HIMSELF IN ALL THESE CASES

  • Solomon Dormenyo Quist 11 years ago

    William
    It is like chewing a cup of roasted groundnuts only to find the LAST one so distasteful , destroying your hours of blissful munching. Such is life. It takes all types to make the world.

  • Paul Amuna 11 years ago

    The man may be an Ewe but what he wrote was sound, balanced and ivory well informed. Whatever your views, you cannot fault the opinion in this case.

  • NANA KUFUOR 11 years ago

    Fellow Ghanaians, let us analyze the performance of these two main political parties in this country. NDC’s philosophy is “dzie wo fie asem”. In opposition they allowed the Kufuor regime to loot the Ghana government for ...
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  • NII LARTYEY NARTEY 11 years ago

    So in your own double stupidity blinded by tribal support to the "woyomenized" NDC unkept crooks led by Mahama, your baseless and non-substantiative nonsense here is based not on what you will like others to do justifiably ...
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  • Mr. Kelvin Kanga 11 years ago

    Your attack on Andy C.Y.K is rather unfortunate. The NPP leadership erred in including the President in their suit. they only realized they made a mistake after series of criticism by the NDC party and other political gurus. ...
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  • Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 11 years ago

    Andy, I got the impression from the earlier section of the article that there is vacuum of leadership in Ghana just before the President Elect is sworn in by the Chief Justice. That is not the case at all because until the Pr ...
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  • CHE ANDREW 11 years ago

    Kofi, sorry for not getting the information early. The doctors have pronounced him crazy as a result of doping too much this morning. The doctors are doing everything possible to help him get back to some normalcy. Please be ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Kofi, thanks for your comments.

    Well, I can't recall exactly how the handing over ceremony is performed in Ghana but I thought for a fleeting second or minute, the outgoing President must hand over the staff of office to ...
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  • Vincey,NJ 11 years ago

    From what I have read now have answered my contemplation all the time that, this pathetic NPP law suit is already dead at SC corridors. By their joining the incumbent president in the suit. Because there is no time gap betwee ...
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  • Vincey,NJ 11 years ago

    To become

  • Paul Amuna 11 years ago

    Please note, the chief justice does the honours, and whether the new president is the re-elected or the old one" is irrelevant. This shouldn't be an issue.

  • CHE ANDREW 11 years ago

    I smell Mr. Don Oxiote here. Man have you taken your medicines this morning? If yes, I advise you to see the doctor again. If no better rush for them or else you could just drop dead with rage.

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Thanks for the barbs - they come with the territory. You simply made me stronger.

    Once again, thank you!

    Andy-K

  • nana yaw 11 years ago

    You have said it all, Nii. Its not about emotions, or hearsay, but facts and ensuring that the soverign will of the people who stood in long cues in the sun are respected and given only what they asked for, and not what some ...
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  • Saaka 11 years ago

    Well done Andy. A well written piece. Nana and his team to read and re-adjust themselves or stop disturbing the peace of our beloved country

  • stephen sondem 11 years ago

    Andy, you deserve sympathy, and not condemnation since you preceded your submission by making it clear that you are not a lawyer. My advice to you is that desist from swimming in unfamiliar waters. To legal minds, what you ha ...
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  • Sampson 11 years ago

    For as long as useless and mentally retarded idiots like Akadu and he/her irks are bent to destroy the NPP,they will see Cannan but will not step there.What is wrong with what the writer has written? Hasn´t he the right to e ...
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  • Whatever 11 years ago

    The president, the supreme court and the opposition are setting the laws aside to engage themselves in court in clare voilation of the law. This is lawlessness and unacceptable because its going to set a bad precedent for fut ...
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  • nana yaw 11 years ago

    I wonder what the writer is trying to say, Mahama was sued as a citizen of Ghana who stood for election because he qualifies to do so by all standards just like the writer himself. The law that governed this election, CI74 ...
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  • KOFI ELLISON 11 years ago

    Andy, your point is non sequitur!

    The NPP is not the petitioner(s). The petitioners are Akuffo Addo; Bawumia; and Obtesebi-Lamptey. Political parties cannot sue in matters such as the ongoing, according the Constitution! ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Kofi,

    Thanks for your comments. A Happy New Year to you.

    I think I've sufficiently dealt with your argument that the President was being sued as a private citizen. You see, you simply cannot divorce President Mahama as ...
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  • KOFI ELLISON 11 years ago

    Thanks, and Happy New Year to you too, Andy.

    Actually, in the US (Washington, D.C. to be exact) in 1997, a Georgian diplomat, Gueorgui Makharadze,second to the ambassador in seniority was sentenced to 7-21 years prison te ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Kofi, you plea doesn't remove the substance of legality. We can't allow unconst'nal actions just to placate the threats of what the NPP can do to destabilise the country!

    Yes, I've also read of countries asking fot diplom ...
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  • MR. FIGURE- OUT 11 years ago

    "To sue him is just a frivolous action caused by the uninformed and inexperienced democratic institutions framers in charge of Ghana presently who inserted a contradictory clause, forgetting that the President-elect can be th ...
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  • Me4U 11 years ago

    If the incumbent presidential candidate is immune from prosecution, then s/he can always steal the election results in connivance with executives of the electoral commission.

  • Taamiawu 11 years ago

    State which the Pres indirectly controls through the Minister Of Finance? Then again,why do we have the impeachment route under our constitution? Andy has laid out a solid case to show that The President cannot be sued,and h ...
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  • DAVID ATUGIYA 11 years ago

    Andy, thanks for the brilliant piece. I am very pleased you have put this matter to rest and have demonstrated that people like you, Paul Kuruk and me who are not court room lawyers should not leave legal issues to our legal ...
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  • C.Y. ANDY-K 11 years ago

    Thanks David, for your support of my position,a mere political scientist and organisation theorist.

    Well, I surely do know my K.C. Wheare, "Constitutions", very well, and so can't be bamboozled by any lawyer about matters ...
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  • Okro One 11 years ago

    It is absolutely false that Nana sued Tsatsu Tsikata in the name of the President. The truth of the matter is that, the writ Nana filed against Tsikata at the Fast Track High court was properly titled the Republic v Tsatsu Ts ...
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