Wednesday, 15th June, 2022

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DAILY ANALYST Wednesday, 15th June, 2022
Ghana Card
can’t be used
as E-passport
The Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration,
Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey has debunked
reports that the Ghana Card can be accepted as a
traveling document in place of a passport.
Speaking on the floor of Parliament yesterday,
the Foreign Affairs Minister pointed out that even though the
Ghana card has the potential of becoming an e-passport, it
has not been accepted outside the ECOWAS sub-region yet.
“To conclude Mr. Speaker, I wish to reiterate that even
though the Ghana Card bears the technical features of an
E-passport and has the potential to be used as an E-passport
there is still a long way to go for it to be recognized as such,”
the Minister added.
Chief shot by
unknown assailants
at Gyengyen in Krachi
West Municipality
The Chief of Gyengyen, a community in the Krachi
West Municipality of the Volta Region, has been
shot by unknown assailants at his residence.
It is reported that the incident occurred on the
night of Monday, June 13, 2022 during a short period
of power outage in the community.
Nana Quansah Kpebu II was initially rushed to the Krachi
West Municipal Hospital for treatment but was transferred
later to the 37 Military Hospital in Accra for further medical
examination.
JoyNews’ sources say he was hit by a bullet in his groin
and would require a secondary medical treatment.
The Krachi West Police Command has since deployed police
personnel to the town to maintain order and ensure calm.
Supreme Court dismisses Gyakye
Quayson’s review application
The Supreme Court has
dismissed a review
application filed by
restrained Assin North
Member of Parliament
James Gyakye Quayson.
The 7-member ordinary
bench of the Court had, in a 5-2
majority decision in April 2022,
restrained the Member of Parliament
from holding himself
out as the Assin North representative.
The Court in its reasoning,
said, among other things, that
it had the duty to uphold the
constitution and to stop any
aberrations of same.
Mr. Quayson, however, not
satisfied with the decision,
instructed his lawyers to seek a
review of that decision.
His lead counsel, Tsatsu
Tsikata told the review panel
that the bench went against
a long line of precedents in
granting the order to restrain
Mr. Quayson from acting as a
Member of Parliament.
This, Mr. Tsikata said, was
notwithstanding that the Court
did not also have jurisdiction
in the injunction application
matter.
A deputy Attorney General,
Diana Asonaba Dapaah, in
opposing the review application,
said the applicant “failed woefully”
to meet the requirements
under the rules of the Court.
Lawyer for Michael An-
National Chairman
hopeful for the New
Patriotic Party, Stephen
Ayensu Ntim,
has assured the party
faithful that he will resolve all
internal party conflicts within
100 days in office when elected.
According to him, this will
empower party supporters to
continuously love and support
the party to achieve its “breaking
the 8 agenda”.
Mr. Stephen Ntim made the
promise when he addressed the
media after filing his nomination
forms at the Party’s headquarters
in Accra.
He observed that the NPP can
only win the 2024 elections if its
members remain focused and
united.
“Breaking the 8 hinges on a
number of ingredients but key
amongst them is unity. Until we
present a united front, Breaking
the 8 would be a mantra, a
mirage” he said.
Mr.Stephen Ntim was emphatic
on the fact that it is by
getting everyone onboard that
the Breaking the 8 agenda would
be a reality.
“Internal elections bring
their own issues. There are oftentimes,
acrimonious exchanges
amongst aspirants and their
supporters. If these are not addressed
after internal elections,
komah-Nimfah, the plaintiff in
the original matter, Frank Davis,
agreed with the Deputy Attorney
General.
He insisted that “no case at
all has been made by the applicant
to necessitate a review of
this court’s decision”.
The court in its decision read
by its President, His Lordship
Jones Dotse, held that Mr. James
Gyakye Quayson “has not met
the unity we so desire to win the
next elections would elude us,”
he said.
Pledging to unite the party
when elected, Stephen Ntim
said,”I am ready to resolve all
disputes that will arise out of
our internal contests. As humans,
as we are, we may go
wrong at one time or the other
the threshold to review the
decision of this court. The application
fails and accordingly
dismissed.”
The other members of the
9-member review panel are
Justices Agnes Dordzie, Nene
Amegatcher, Prof. Nii Ashie
Kotey, Mariama Owusu, Gertrude
Torkornoo, Amadu Tanko, Prof.
Henrietta Mensa-Bonsu and
Emmanuel Yonny Kulendi.
“I’ll resolve all internal
disputes within 100 days”
during the campaign period.
There is, therefore, the need to
look at all these and address
them so that in unison, we can
defeat the ‘enemy’,” he stated.
He was accompanied by
scores of his supporters and
campaign team members to submit
his filled nomination forms.