No judge should be Speaker of Parliament – Ras Mubarak LISTEN
DEC 29, 2020
The outgoing Member of Parliament (MP) for the Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak, has cautioned against the appointment of a judge as the next Speaker of the eighth Parliament.
Mr Mubarak noted in an article he posted on Facebook that the new Speaker of Parliament should be someone who has served as an MP previously.
Parts of his article read: “As far as I’m concerned, the nominee for the Speaker of the 8th Parliament of Ghana, should be someone who knows the standing orders (the rule book of parliament) thoroughly”.
Who wears the robe? Election of Speaker of the 8th Parliament, What to Look out For
By Ras Mubarak, MP
DEC 27, 2020
The position of Speaker of Ghana s Parliament as I know it, historically, has been reserved for persons above 60, except on two occasions when Aaron Eugene Kofi Asante Ofori-Atta, the fourth speaker of the first republic and Edward Doe Adjaho, the fifth speaker of the fourth republic were elected to the position respectively.
By convention, it has also gone to persons with a law background, though not a prerequisite. And I shall come to the reason why lawyers have always been favored.