Introduction The popular Human Rights Lawyer, Martin Kpebu Esq, has called for the state to regulate religion, drawing an analogy with Rwanda’s requirement that pastors obtain a prior certification in theology to be able to operate as pastors. This background informs the brief analysis in this paper. It aims to analyze why the regulation of...
Abstract The powers of government to legislate, adjudicate, or implement laws are shared among the arms of government—Parliament, the Judiciary, and the Executive. These powers are either exclusively exercised by one arm of government or jointly with the others. Since 2019, the Parliament of Ghana has set out an internal procedure for members of parliament...
If you closely follow activities on twitter, then you might have seen the recent plea by the BET award-winning rapper, Sarkodie, directed at the twitter handle of the president, pleading among other things, the need for the ban on travel to be lifted, so that he can return to Ghana. This raised a constitutional debate...
It has become a common concern among students, lawyers, politicians and the wider population about the threat Covid-19 poses to current government of the day should it be impossible for presidential elections to be held within the time stated in the 1992 constitution. In early March, the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 as a pandemic. Within...