The National Organizer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye, widely known as Nana B, has accused President John Dramani Mahama of once again breaching the 1992 Constitution by accepting deportees from the United States without parliamentary approval.
Nana B argued that the development mirrors the infamous “Gitmo 2” case in 2016, when the Supreme Court ruled that the Mahama administration acted illegally by resettling two Guantanamo Bay detainees in Ghana without Parliament’s ratification under Article 75.
He disclosed that he has instructed his lawyers to file a new case at the Supreme Court to enforce the Constitution and prevent what he described as a “flagrant assault” on Ghana’s laws.
“I will, therefore, be heading back to the Supreme Court to seek an enforcement of Article 75 of the Constitution in order to abate the ongoing assault on the Constitution by the Executive. I have instructed my lawyers, Nana Adjei Baffour Awuah and Lenin Anane Agyei to commence the process. This flagrant disregard of our constitution and the Supreme Court must not be allowed to fester.”
According to Nana B, Foreign Affairs Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa’s attempt to justify the deportee agreement as a mere Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is misleading, since the Supreme Court has already held that all international agreements, regardless of their form, require parliamentary approval if they create obligations for Ghana.
The NPP National Organizer warned that ignoring the 2017 Gitmo 2 precedent undermines the authority of the judiciary, Parliament, and the Constitution, describing Mahama’s move as a dangerous abuse of executive power.
