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The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin has said he has the powers to remove President Akufo-Addo from office.
According to the former Health Minister, the laws of the country has given the Parliament powers to remove a president from the office but such authority has been not given to the president to remove a speaker of Parliament.[ads2]
“This year, all the laws we have been passing are laws we passed to benefit the executive, even we forget about Parliament in the language we use, this is self-inflicted; it is not a deficiency in the constitution, it’s a deficiency in Parliament itself. We must correct it”, Alban Bagbin said whilst speaking at the post-budget forum held at Ho in the Volta Region over the weekend.[ads3]
He reminded the legislators the powers handed to them by law and as Parliament be able to stand for themselves and not to play to the whims and caprices of the executive.
“Let me reemphasized that the 8th Parliament is properly positioned not to allow itself to be bullied into playing second fiddle to the executive. Parliament can remove His Excellency the President; His Excellency cannot do that to Parliament. As Speaker, His Excellency cannot remove me, but I can through Parliament get him [the president] removed”.[ads5]
