[ 2017-03-01 ]

Buabeng Asamoah, MP for Adenta Constituency

Transition Act(845) too weak to address disorder, hooliganism – NPP MP
The New Patriotic Party(NPP) Member of Parliament
for Adenta Constituency, Buabeng Asamoah says the
current Presidential (Transition) Act, 2012 (Act
845) ought to be strengthened further to forestall
a recurrence of the disorder and administrative
lapses that normally characterized period of
transitions.

Mr. Buabeng argued on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.5
FM that the legal blue print that governed the
transition of political power in the country still
has some loopholes likely to affect subsequent
transitions.

“If we don’t strengthen the law at its current
state, if there is a change of government, we
would face the same challenges that occurred in
2016/2017 political era.

“We still have some teething problems in the
law. The Administrative General should be the most
powerful person in Ghana to pursue government
officials and responsible for the management of
the Executive estate, assets as well as the
transition process. But the office of the
Administrator General is not empowered very well
to take up such responsibilities.

“Section 6(3) prescribes that the out-going
government should detail out all its activities
into the handing over notes before it hands over
power to the incumbent government, but the former
administration was in breach of the law in that
regard,” he said.

The Transition law was enacted to establish
arrangements for the political transfer of
administration from an out-going President to a
democratically elected President and to provide
for related matters.

The Law made provision for accountability,
institutional clarity and structured time for
managing the transition process to avert the
challenges experienced in previous transitions.

Source - kasapaonline.com

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