Stop the approval of the law of public universities

General news for Friday, December 25, 2020

Source: GNA

2020-12-25

The legislature has been asked to stop passing the public universities bill.

“It seems to me that the Executive and the Legislature are hell-bent on making it law, despite the vehement protests of many well-meaning Ghanaians,” said Kwaku Ansah-Asare, former director of legal education and head of the Ghana Law School, said this in a press release, with a copy to the Ghana News Agency.

He said that the parliamentarians, ministers and vice ministers who are leaving the government do not have the moral authority to make executive or legislative decisions that directly affect a representative sample of the electorate “that has shown them the red card.”

Mr Ansah-Asare said that, in his opinion, the Members of Parliament who lost their seats “had nothing to do” in a legislative judgment on the very electorate that had voted for them, adding that the same principle applied to the newly elected members of Parliament, who had not yet started their sessions.

He said that the NPP government’s refusal to listen to the opinions of the “silent majority” on all provisions of the Public Universities Bill contributed greatly to “the NPP’s loss of some 40 seats in Parliament.”

Mr. Ansah-Asare urged the Ministry of Education to consider the views of the opposition and withdraw the bill.

“Finally, I would with the utmost respect advise former President John Dramani Mahama to accept the results of the presidential elections and to yield in the interest of peace in Ghana,” he said.