A seven member panel of the Supreme Court has declared as Moot a writ by broadcaster Richard Sky contesting last year’s dramatic rejection and subsequent approval of government’s 2022 budget by Parliament.
The panel chaired by Justice Jones Dotse Justices with Agnes Dordzie, Nene Amegatcher, Justice Mariama Owusu, Justice Lovelace Johnson, Justice Henrietta Mensah-Bonsu and Justice Yonni Kulendi as panel Members said, the writ was with “substantially dealt” with in the Justice Abdulai judgment.
In court on Wednesday, March 16, 2022, the panel said “this case is moot and there is no need giving a separate rendition.”
The Supreme Court was to decide on whether or not the Majority New Patriotic Party (NPP)’s approval of the 2022 Budget and Economic Policy of the Government last year, was in line with constitutional provisions.
Richard Dela Sky, filed a writ invoking the original jurisdiction of the court challenging the decision of the Majority NPP, to vote to rescind the rejection of the budget by the Minority NDC.
On that day, the proceeding to approve the budget was presided over by the First Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Joseph Osei-Owusu, in the absence of NDC MPs and the Speaker, Alban Bagbin, who had travelled out of the country for a medical review.
The writ was filed following divergent views on the rejection of the budget on one hand by 137 NDC MPs and on the other hand the reversal of the rejection by 138 NPP MPs including the First Deputy Speaker who doubles as MP for Bekwai.
Source: Ghana/Kasapafmonline.com/Murtala Inusah